Professor Sir David Watson Keynote - Higher Education and the Question of Conscience
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Arriving someplace in a roundabout way
Scott Bradner Harvard University
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Before the Beginning
• The Phone Network from The Phone Company
• circuit-based • predictable interconnections between ends • assumed absolute requirement for QoS • assumption of being carrier-provided • the (only) service was voice
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The Beginning, 1960s
• Len Kleinrock: packet-based networks work
• JC Licklider: global data networks imaginable
• Larry Roberts: need to share scarce computers
• Paul Baran: best effort networks can be reliable (and, by the way, survivable)
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First Contact
Harvard: ~11% of nodes
June 1970
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A Rider Not a Builder
• The ARPANET, and the follow on Internet, rode on the telephone network But were not services offered by the telephone
companies Internet service providers (ISPs) bought “wires”
from telephone companies • ISP routers interconnected these wires
ISPs not limited to a single telephone carrier or to a single country
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The View From Most of Harvard
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Why Blank?
• No internal Harvard network But, so what – the ARPANET was between a
computer at a site to a computer at another site • No permission
Only people getting federal funds were permitted to use the ARPANET And staff on the connected computer :-)
• Thus, very small percent of the Harvard community knew about, or used, the ARPANET 7
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The View Changed in 1983
8 ARPANET view Enabled by CSNet
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Two Changes in 1983
• CSnet membership gave blanket access permission (for email) Including all facility, students and staff Exposing the first of many generations of
students • Deployment of TCP/IP
Change to interconnecting networks at sites • Started & proven by the feds, who then
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Federal Net Topology
1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
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ARPANET NSFnet 56Kb NSFnet T1 NSFnet T3
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What Did They Prove?
• That high-speed packet-based networks could be built and operated reliability
• That packet-based network were useful • That packet-based networks could support
many services
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Me @ Harvard
• ARPANET #1: sob at harv10 • NIC: SB28 • Usenet: {genrad|bbncca|panda|ihnp4|
allegra|harvard}!wjh12!sob • BITNET: sob at HARVUNXW • ARPANET #2: [email protected] • NSFNet: [email protected]
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History Feature: Bang Addressing
• Usenet (uucp) initially ran over dial-up connections between routers Cost hidden in coms budget
• Uucp used source routing • Sender defined store and forward path to
reach destination • Exclamation points (bangs) between node
names
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How Not to Do it: Pathalias
• Pathalias discovered uucp paths to destinations
• Worked off of a map of uucp nodes and connections
• Uucp mapping project started in early 1984 to create a whole-world map of uucp nodes Unknown Mailer Error 101, or Why Its So Hard To
See You – USENIX summer 1984 • Project closed in 2000, OBE
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History Feature: BITNET
• Because Its There Network Later changed to “Because its Time”
• Interconnected IBM mainframes And machines that pretended to be IBM
mainframes • Store & forward, world-wide • Like uucp, costs buried in telecom bill
Avoided having to get permission
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Harvard and Internet #1
• Initial IP external connectivity via ARPANET To one or two computers in Aiken Comp lab
• Internal connectivity by point-to-point twisted pair cables Up to 1.5 Mbps Running SLIP
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Gateway
• Wjh12 (an 11/44) served as a gateway between BITNET, usenet & ARPANET And the Harvard campus
• The first time I heard “do not ask questions you do not want to know the answers to” When I asked if it was OK to take over the
Usenet/ARPANET gateway function from Larry Landweber
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Internet Moves to Be All
• Both uucp & BITNET evolved to run over TCP/IP Then died
• Chaosnet, XNS, IPX, DECNET, AppleTalk, SNA, APPN bloomed, then withered, then died – leaving only TCP/IP
• VoIP not new Danny Cohen: Network Voice Protocol (RFC 741
1977) • Nor is video
Van Jacobson et al, Whiteboard (1992)
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Harvard and Internet #2: 1986
• Internal fiber Ethernet – 13 buildings Passive optical
• External - John Von Neumann Computer Network (JvNCnet) NSF-funded network to connect to
supercomputer T1 to MIT & then T1 to Princeton
• NSFNet v1 (56 Kbps) interconnected supercomputer centers
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Harvard and Internet #3: 1988
• We can do better: NEARnet • MIT-, BU- & Harvard-founded regional
network New England area 10 Mbps microwave Ethernet BBN hired to manage
• Some DARPA funding, so they could end ARPANET – no NSF funding
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10 Decisions That Made a Difference
• support existing networks • datagram-based • creating the router function • split ITCP into IP and TCP • DARPA fund Berkeley to add TCP/IP to
UNIX • CSNET and CSNET/ARPANET deal • NSF require TCP/IP on NSFnet • ISO turn down TCP/IP standardization • NSF Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) • minimal regulation 21
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Enabler, Not Inventor
• High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA) Funded research centers and connectivity 22
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Commercial Internet
• Forced by ARPANET & NSFnet AUPs • UUnet – 1987 (loan from Usenix) • PSInet – 1989 • ANS – 1990 (ANS CO+RE 1991) • …
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Friends And Family (only)?
• ‘I will not interconnect with him’
• Also Prodigy, AOL, CompuServe • Isolation did not last
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But, Inconceivable Relevance
• Existing telecommunications world did not believe E.g., IBM no-bid ARPANET router
no future in packet-based networks Conventional wisdom: best effort useless
Guaranteed QoS required Most connections low speed (dial-up) No threat seen to telephone companies
• Thus, totally ignored by regulators including the ITU
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Many Non-Believers
• Harvard library: refused to put card catalog on-line
• Network World: discouraged me from writing about the Internet until the late 1990s
• ITU-T spent a decade working on NGN • Regulators assumed uselessness so
ignored the Internet until recently
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Internet2: A Non-Alternate Universe
• Born from MFUG in 1996 • ‘High-speed, QoS & GigaPOPs’ • ISP for high-ed+, COTS equipment
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Side Trip (So Far)
• It is now 20 years since IPv6 was announced IETF 30, Toronto CA July 1994 ALE WG: v4 addresses to run out 2008 ± 3
• Yes, we have no (v4) addresses: IANA (2011) Ditto APNIC (2011), ditto RIPE (2012) LACNIC: (projected 2014) ARIN: (projected 2015) AFRNIC: (projected 2019)
• Few choices but v6, but … Delaying by using a address market
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The Now Reality
• Its only IP for transport voice, video and other types of data
• Carriers, not ISPs, for residential market • Little competition • Much money made using the Internet, not so
much providing the Internet • Now the FCC wants to replace what got us
here • The net is too important to leave it to the
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Higher Ed and the Internet
• Without higher-ed the Internet would not have become The Internet
• Exposed students & others to the power of open communications – creating demand
• Implemented ideas when they were new (e.g. WWW)
• Supported ISPs (rather than carriers wanting a walled garden with a per-port fee)
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A Fun Ride
• From geek-bait to mom-surfing • From aggressively ignored to can’t take their
hands off it • From rot-13 for sensitive eyes to decimating
the porn industry • From pushing green cards to 70% spam • From naïve libertarians to the Arab Spring • From the Cuckoo's Egg to NSA world-
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I hope we recognize what comes out of the next phase
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