steve crocker, himself a legendary figure in the networking world, hands over the "half fishball" to peter kirstein and tells a story about the early days of networking in the uk . the first award was given posthumously to jon postel in 1999, the second got scott bradner, known for his work on routers. he also helds a us patent on speech recognition. 2001 daniel karrenberg, he was involved in the seetting up of eunet and last year stephen wolff

Steve Crocker was one of the founders of CyberCash and a co-inventor of CyberCash's CyberCoin service. He was vice president of Trusted Information Systems for eight years and service Area Director for Security in the Internet Engineering Task Force for four and half years. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Dr. Crocker was part of the team which developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today's Internet. In addition to his technical work, he organized the Network Working Group, the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force, and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. ( out of imp)

the beginning of the internationalisation of the internet was shadowed by the vietnam war, but "peter kirstein and his group managed the tricky waters and hosted the first international link of the arpa network in the uk", steve crocker said in his talk at ietf57. but kirstein disagreed: the war in vietnam was no problem at all: " europe didn't care about those things that much. england's interest was satnet, and that had to be an international operación.

25 million pounds was the price to switch the network in the 80s to domain names. someone can imagine what it means to get to ipv6 now, with far more users.

"the first two domain names were .edu and .mit but very shortly afterwards the third one was already international: it was .uk ...

kirstein about the introduction of domain names back in the 80s.