At 12:30 16/01/2006, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Happy birthday, IETF!
Dear Harald,
you are right, happy birthday! An impressive continuity we should
strive to protect. In avoiding the status quo that some stakeholders
may favor, and areas outside of network engineering (such as
linguistic and country political definition :-)).
Wonder how many of the original 21 are still around????
Harald, attendee since #22 (but missed #29)
Impressive. My own agenda that sad fortnight might help better
understand the past, present and future of the network.
- on 12-15 January 1986 I attended the eight Telecommunications
Council Eighth Annual Conference at he Hawaiian Regent Hotel in
Honolulu. The theme was "Evolution of the Digital Pacific". Audience
was probably 200 to 300 people. I had a lunch there with two lady
training consultant for the US Army TV network, to discuss how to
support their program on packet switch network, with Compression Lab tools.
- on the 16 I had a diner at the Bonaventure (LA) with Father Bourret
(http://www.kuangchi.com/english/history.htm). On the agenda: packet
switching in TW and a Vatican State International Packet Switch Gateway
- then I brought international data services experience in meetings
with an LA based Bank and for a complete turn-key online banking
service to a group NY banks. Multi-currency accounts, ATM
connections. I explained our experience with air-line reservation
services for most of the major airlines, hotels chains and
rent-a-cars, and how it worked at regular Travel Agents using a
service you would call a smart OPES today.
- met with Mobil Oil international communications manager (NY) and
routine meetings with the International Carriers. I was in Washington
on the 28th.
We used to refer to ARPANET as the "grand father" :-). Minitel users
were probably already 3 millions in France, plus Prestel in UK, plus
Germany, etc.. Over these 20 years since these Tymnet times, OSI,
then the Internet made us to step from 7+ to 70+ to 700+ millions of
active users worldwide.
But you may understand why I feel the architectural evolution is
sometimes dismaying and why constraints and rigidity cannot bring
innovation and expansion. We need now another technology leap frog
towards the 7+ billions users.
Only a multilingual, multinational, multilateral, multitechnology,
multiservice continuity architecture can deliver now.
Good luck to everyone for the next decade which will be decisive.
I do hope you will permit it to be in cooperation with the IGF,. That
we can proceed fast on a stable, reasonable and acceptable equal
opportunity but competitive fair basis. As we all agreed in Tunis.
jfc
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