Anything NOT MADE OF MATTER can be translated into IP
I’ve been asked to appear on the #GeekSpeak Panel discussion regarding Net Neutrality. @KLFLegal @edeckers @dszp @codatory will be on the panel, too. As I mentioned to John Fox — aka @IndyGeekNet — when he invited me, I’m very interested in this topic. I used to be a telecom geek, now I’m an Internet infrastructure geek. Internet Protocol – I P – is also the language of twitter, btw, but I will resist the urge to whip out my twitter soapbox.
In order to understand net neutrality I thought I would start at the very beginning. The following excerpt is from a paper entitled:
U.S. Public Policy and ICANN: a small U.S. nonprofit serving over one billion people globally. Although written less than three years ago, the title is wrong. It’s now FOUR BILLION.
Commonly known as a Father of the Internet, Vinton Cerf was there as the developer of protocols that facilitated this data flow. […] He has often been photographed wearing a T-shirt with an image that claims, “IP on Everything.” Generally admired within the community for his technical genius and sense of humor, Cerf understands the psyche of early technology adapters.
[…] The National Telecommunication and Information Administration wisely recognized the organic nature of the Internet and they, “encouraged bottom-up development of networking technologies through work at NSF… […]
By the mid 90s, this new technology became the grass-roots mass communication device envisioned by the National Science Foundation, and anyone with a computer, a connection and the desire, had a voice in this new public forum. […]
.. the DoC would create ICANN, a nonprofit organization, to be responsible for the, “technical coordination of the [Domain Name System] DNS to the private sector in a manner that promotes stability and security, competition, bottom-up coordination, and representation.” To that end, ICANN encourages every member of the Internet community to participate in the decision-making process, and encourages competition through for-profit registrars. The de-centralization of registrars virtually created a new global industry…”
“I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversation” ~George Bernard Shaw
