Paper Info
Title
The Early International Activities in the Arpanet, Its Mutation into the Internet, and Some Further Regional Extensions.
Abstract
This talk will consider some of the activities involved in setting up the International Internet and its precursors. It will consider later efforts in promoting the technology in regions that it had not reached earlier. There will be consideration not only the technical development, but also the political climate which either encouraged or prevented its take-up. Moreover, the importance of personal networks at many stages of the story will be highlighted. I will consider why the first Arpanet service node was sited at UCL, how it grew to provide an international heterogeneous interconnection service until the late '80s, and how this differed from other European developments. This will include the governance put in place, the role of the Open Systems Interconnection rise and fall in Europe, and the growth of multi- agency support on both sides of the Atlantic. In parallel with the development of a UK-US service, an International Collaboration Board (ICB) was formed that fostered unclassified collaborations between certain European and American NATO defence departments. While the ICB was not very significant technically, how its success initiated broader US-European Internet extension will be described. Our emphasis on application services to the '90s will be outlined - message, directory, security and multimedia conferencing. Finally we will treat briefly the start of international networking in India around 1990, and the bringing the academics of Central Asia and the Caucasus into the Internet community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3241539.3241588
MobiCom '18: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking New Delhi India October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Arpanet,Internet history
Political climate,Corporate governance,Telecommunications,Directory,Computer science,Open Systems Interconnection,Computer network,Service node,ARPANET,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5903-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter T. Kirstein15629.99