[isoc-ny] 1992 :: July 16 :: David Clark Articulates Internet Creed

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1992 :: July 16 :: David Clark Articulates Internet Creed


We Reject: Kings, Presidents, and Voting.
We Believe in: Running Code and Rough Consensus.

<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg/320px-David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg>
Prof. David Clark
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark#/media/File:David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg>On
July 16, 1992, Prof. David Clark
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/Clark.html> articulated what would
become the creed <https://www.ietf.org/tao.html> of the Internet
engineering community.  He was giving a presentation *A Cloudy Crystal
Ball: A Vision into the Future
<http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/DDC/future_ietf_92.pdf>* at the IETF
<http://www.ietf.org/old/2009/proceedings/prior29/IETF24.pdf>.  It was era
of turmoil and uncertainty as the privatization of the Internet
(the transformation of the Internet from NSFNET
<http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/nsfnet.htm> to commercial networks) was
in its infancy.

During his presentation, based on Prof. Clark's slides, he made a number of
additional curious observations:


   - Our best success was not computing, but hooking people together.
   - The hacks of today are the commonplace of tomorrow.
   - Security is a CRITICAL problem.
   - What we should do: Fix insecure services: PASSWORDS
   - The problem is assigning the correct degree of fear to distant
   elephants.
   - If we have a problem it is due to too much success.


​(from
http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2016/07/1992-july-16-david-clark-articulates.html
)​

-- 

Joly MacFie
President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
http://isoc-ny.org          218 565 9365
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