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International Telecom Policy

motzes — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:01:12 GMT

At this moment a coherent generally accepted European telecommunication – or information – policy does not exist! | keynote by jansen van rosendaal, director CEC, Dir. Gen, XIII-B, 12. may 1983

well, 30 years later ...

us and the use of the word "war"

motzes — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:03:23 GMT

The US Pentagon recently declared "war" on paper: apart from the normal paper problems of
all unwieldy bureaucracies, the Pentagon now has to cope with the huge amounts of documentation which go with complex high-tech weapons systems. For example, a typical US Navy cruiser puts to sea with no less than 26 tonnes of manuals for its weapons systems - enough to affect the performance of the vessel! | megatrends or megamistakes? whatever happened to the information society? by tom forester

big data

motzes — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:44:56 GMT

it's about people, it's about knowing where the data comes from, it's about questioning: again nothing new, but repeating circles. recalling first military simulations done by number crunchers. is there a way to move on, please?¿

"...That we are all sitting here today with one of the biggest technologies that we've invented, and were using it to solve trivialities. We use it to solve advertising problems, hypothetical data scientist pulling down information about a childrens breakfast cereal, measuring and constructing data to build models to determine the exact color of the packaging, the position on the shelf, and how much money we should charge for it. (sean gurley (01:58) | structure:data conference 2013

"Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever." (hunt) | cia chews everything

it isn't a miracle

motzes — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:40:32 GMT

reading old reports from the commission, many obstacles have been known since ..., well for a long time, and have been considered to be a problem within the EU aka ECC to foster the telecom market.

...handicaps which beset the Community: (as seen in 1983)
- compartmentalized market which stunt supply and demand;
- the uncertainty of carriers and companies over what development strategies to put in hand;
- weakness in the fundamental technologies of telecommunications;
- backwardness of less favoured areas in respect of networks, equipment, and advanced telecommunications services. | com(84) 277 final, Brussels, 18th May 1984

Member States at that time: Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom and Greece.

and who oversaw the process ...?¿

information flow

motzes — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:48:26 GMT

towards a negotiable definition of propaganda for international agreements related to direct broadcasting | jon t. powell, 1982

and for sure one shouldn't leave out the following doc in this regard: a summary about warc (world administrative radio conference) warc-79

generally, fas/ota archive appears to be a nice source for getting an idea what and how devs. have been discussed in the usa academic/policy circles.

seems in the 80s maritime/space law have been the role model in this debate, while today we are back to domestic viewpoints, are we?

the primary might be an explanation why many telco/surveillance laws were negotiated for a long time under "fishing rights". no conspiracy, as some suggested, just the right place for international treaties, if one follows that notion.

when pure information became a private industry

motzes — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:25:52 GMT

... Yet the cultural values in many parts of the
world assume that information must necessarily be a shared resource. For example, in a medieval theocratic society within a nunnery or a monastery the scribes who worked so diligently in their for scriptorias produced their for elegant manuscripts benefit. the glory of God and not their personal
The social institution within which they operated provided the simple needs of life. Since the talents and skills that they possessed were God given, it would be unseemly to suggest that an individual should receive personal financial benefit from their exploitation. Rewards for excellence were to be delivered in the hereafter not the here and now ...

... Those charged with the responsibility for representing the various telecommunications interests should analyze their positions within the framework of a global system. Perhaps they will discover that their parochial and public responsibilities more often coincide than diverge. The demands of global electronic networks in the service of a global economy demand statesmanship on a level not hereto- fore exercised. Leadership trained in cooperative, arbitrative, and negotiative skills are needed, for competition alone will not suffice to manage resources which must by their nature be shared.

Law is in not a static, unchanging prison in which we, like Prometheus, are bound to suffer the inevitable miseries of a destiny dictated by the Gods. Our legal system is the manifestation of our highest aspirations. It is deeply rooted in our cultural traditions and designed to serve our common purposes.
Let us work together as legal, technical, government, and corporate leaders to improve the legal infrastructure of our global telecommunications system to serve our common needs. | anne w. branscomb, "for global information transport", 1983

let it be

motzes — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:08:57 GMT

remember: never play travel agent, if your head is already 6 month ahead.

los reyes magos

motzes — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:45:05 GMT

2003 y 2013

(mané espinosa)

history site

motzes — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:20:23 GMT

looking forward to more: a internet history project, conducted by karl auerbach and chris wellens

episode one, with russ haines (dec) mark manasse (dec), steve rubin (apple) about

the first (1993, via mbone) internetband severe tire damage

mark weiser (xerox parc) was the drummer of the band, as far as i recall, and appears shortly.

btw. auerbach's icann lawcase as well as his thoughts about "stakeholderism" is worth a re-read, too.

dijous, 6 / desembre / 2012

motzes — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:32:28 GMT

that's what we already suggested 2008 at fuzo ;)

20 years

StefanL — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:38:16 GMT

Postel: RFC801
It was clear from the start of this research on other networks that the base host-to-host protocol used in the ARPANET was inadequate for use in these networks. In 1973 work was initiated on a host-to-host protocol for use across all these networks. The result of this long effort is the Internet Protocol (IP) and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

These protocols allow all hosts in the interconnected set of these networks to share a common interprocess communication environment. The collection of interconnected networks is called the ARPA Internet (sometimes called the "Catenet").

So if the transition was complete on Jan 1, 1983 would not then be Jan 1 2013 the real 30th anniversary of the functional internet?

brian oakley 1927-2012

motzes — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:17:20 GMT

brian oakley has died in august. always hoped i would have a chance to find him before to talk about the alvey programm, but i didn't take a close look at the "real time club" ...

Without Oakley, Conservative PM Maggie Thatcher might not have given IT a seat in government with her creation of a Minister of Information. Without his pushing, Bletchley Park might today be sitting underneath a housing estate in the Midlands. | brian wynne oakley

oakley was also director of logica's research centre in cambridge, after he retired from the civil service, derek barber writes in his currculum vitae summary.

in memoriam hubert zimmermann 1941-2012

motzes — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:38:52 GMT

sad news. hubert zimmermann died on the 9th of november 2012. once he wanted to go abroad to study computing in the usa, but met louis pouzin, who convinced him to stay in europe, and to work with him on cigale and cyclades instead. later he tried to influence the european way of doing networking at osi. he chaired the osi architecture committee, who formulated the osi reference model (7 layers etc.pp), which still helps networkers today to understand what they are actually talking about.

in memoriam hubert zimmermann: what else do you want to know? (paris, july 14, 2005)

hubert zimmermann tells how he came to computer networking in 1966, why he didn't leave paris in 1972; talks about cyclades, his time as chair of the osi architecture committee at the international organization for standardization (iso), and why a stronger support of the tcp/ip community at iso might have made a difference in the late 1970s, early 1980s.

(andy reminded me, that the answer to the question can be found here as well.)

hubert zimmermann was member of ifip wg 6.1, and received the sigcomm award 1991 “for his 20 years of leadership in the development of computer networking and the advancement of international standardization”.

in april 1974, hubert zimmermann and michel elie, both members of the cyclades project, distributed inwg 61, titled ‘‘standard host/host protocol for heterogeneous computer networks.’ | alexander mcKenzie: inwg and the conception of the internet: an eyewitness account

according to his biography he was lately advising companies in france.

29 novembre 2012, paris: en hommage à hubert zimmermann

ddr & computer

motzes — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:53:12 GMT

as some old links here are not links these days: an update to a functional pointer to robotron: nice material, ie about

"(OPREMA=Optische Rechenmaschine)
Dieser auf Relaisbasis arbeitende Rechner wurde 1955 von der Firma Carl Zeiss Jena gebaut und dort für optischen Berechnungen (Linsensysteme) eingesetzt. Die Entwicklungen dazu begannen 1954. Die Grundfläche des Rechners betrug 55 m². | robotrontechnik

early computing

motzes — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:16:32 GMT

nice advertisment pics provided by pierre mounier, visible at an alan turing exhibition in paris.

"In the 1940s (perhaps earlier), Alan Turing, like many others, used a Brunsviga desk calculator. He even compared its "memory size" to that of other calculators :
Brunsviga : 60 bits. Manchester Baby : 1 024 bits. Project ACE : 60 000 bits. (from the excellent biography by Andrew Hodges)" | pierre mounier

output per hour

motzes — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:13:10 GMT

some times one has to wonder what kind of stats are out there: bureau of labor statistics | us

change your storyline

motzes — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:49:39 GMT

when you meet a start-up chap don't forget to ask:

are you taking care of your people?
are you treating your customers well? | jason fried

q&a

motzes — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:51:25 GMT

question: chris:"if
you find one that answers q1, please be sure to let me know ;-)"

five years later: the answer

piracy as seen in 1987

motzes — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:10:56 GMT

Instead of welcoming this new medium as a supplementary source of income for productions already shown in cinemas, for productions which had not been a commercial success and for childrens' movies, for example, many producers were opposed to the new, medium and tried unsuccessflly to resist it by refusing licences. They saw television and video as a threat to film production instead of as an important new outlet. | green paper on copyright and the challenge of technology, com(88) 172 final, brussels, 7. june 1988

EuroTreaty

motzes — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:35:43 GMT

title xii, trans-european networks maastricht treaty, 1991

... It shall take account in particular of the need to link island, landlocked and peripheral regions with the central regions of the Community.

this lead to collaboration and call for candidates to "validate the technical feasibility and economic viability of advanced communication.

trials include:
- citizen network (health care, social services, transport, education/training, telecommunication
- network of competence and science (including high performance computing)
- industry network (addressing the needs of service industries with particular reference of the needs of equal access to services throughout europe)
- administrative network (providing for the provision of cost-effective administrative services to the citizens and business throughout europe
- media network (providing for the development of general purpose dial-up video services and interactive multimedia services based on digital video)

call for proposals launched: august 1993. as result 14 proposals received in total. (a number a lot of applicants would love to deal with today) exercise done solely for developing guidelines for the future, and as done in the 80s and 70s, to build relationships and to get known each other.

- develop ibc trial specifications,
establish and run common interest groups (cig) for assessing their specifications with end-users feedback, building up relationships with the network operators, assess cost/benefits for the end-users, ... | interoperability in broadband networks ...

ccTLDs

motzes — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:24:02 GMT

880120 AT-DOM | whois by date

done by walter kunft in the name of verein aconet. if there is still a chance to find the original e-mail to john postel needs to be seen. it might be in a box in mountain view, ca. but someone has to take a look ...

dissabte, 21 / juliol / 2012

motzes — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:45:55 GMT

citrix und cisco würd ich vor face the book reihen.

china? india, ...?

dissabte, 21 / juliol / 2012

motzes — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:41:48 GMT

... und aus "women are machine" aus den 40ern machen wir dann auch gleich "companies are machines", five machines.

...kommt darauf an, von welcher cloud die rede ist. spannend ist, dass die bsa schon cloud piracy schreit, bevor es so richtig los geht. ;)

dissabte, 21 / juliol / 2012

micro_robert — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:22:11 GMT

(Kommen wir überhaupt auf so viele? Amazon, Google, Microsoft, vielleicht noch Facebook und IBM / Oracle)

dissabte, 21 / juliol / 2012

micro_robert — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:21:10 GMT

Like: "I think there's a world market for maybe five cloud computing players?"