Hi Doug, Check out the book Splinternet: How geopolitics and commerce are fragmenting the World Wide Web. Then there are TBL’s thoughts.. https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/the-web-belongs-to-all-of-us-qa-with-the-web-s-inventor-sir-tim-berners-lee/ Good luck, C _______________________ Sent while mobile Christian Payne Newsletter
> On 25 Sep 2019, at 01:09, Tarleton, Rep. Gael <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Doug, > > A non profit was set up in 1998 to qoversee the internet - called ICANN, > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN.org has good info. > Also check out the Wikipedia sites for ARPANET and Jon Postel. Postel was a > researcher at UCLA working on ARPA contracts and helped create ARPANET. > > The US Dept of Commerce initiated the process to establish a new organization > to take over the functions being led by Postel. > > Prior to the creation of ICAAN, the website domain registry functions were > privatized. National Science Foundation put out an RFP to take over domain > registry functions and a private company called Network Solutions was the > only bidder at $5.9M. The history of Network Solutions is worth reading. > > All this history is on these Wikipedia sites. > Enjoy ! > > Get Outlook for iOS > From: LT <[email protected]> on behalf of Doug Schuler > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:46:49 PM > To: LT <[email protected]> > Subject: [liberationtech] Internet transition to private industry > > > For an article I'm writing I'd like to know what are the best references to > the decision-making that took place in transitioning the internet to private > industry in the early 1990's (or point me in the right direction). You can > share this with me personally or with the list. I'll be happy to share what I > find with this list. Thanks!! > > — Doug > > > > -- > Douglas Schuler > [email protected] > Twitter: @doug_schuler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest > mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
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