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 ...

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 ...

the data center

Decades ago, computing power was concentrated in mainframes tucked away behind the scenes because there was no alternative — only a hulking room-sized box that could contain any significant amount of computational power. The idea that this power could be distributed rather than centralized seemed like such folly that in 1943, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson said famously (or infamously) that “I think there’s a world market for maybe five computers.” | aaron weiss, computing in the clouds. netWorker, vol 11 Issue 4, December 2007

in the 1970s came the era of personal computer, but maybe one part of the cloudy thing at least is nothing more as to throw light on watson's perspective again.