<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"><h3 style="margin:0.75em 0px 0px"><font face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:22px;font-weight:normal">1992 :: July 16 :: David Clark Articulates Internet Creed</span></font><br></h3><div style="font-size:10.8px;line-height:1.6;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif"> </div><div style="font-size:13.2px;width:700px;line-height:1.4;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif"><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We Reject: Kings, Presidents, and Voting.<br>We Believe in: Running Code and Rough Consensus.</span></blockquote><table style="margin-bottom:0.5em;padding:5px;border:1px solid #eeeeee;color:#000000;float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888;max-width:100%;clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg/320px-David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg"><img style="border: none; max-width: initial; padding: 0px; background: transparent;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg/320px-David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="133" border="0"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size:10.56px;text-align:center"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888;max-width:100%" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark#/media/File:David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg">Prof. David Clark</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On July 16, 1992, Prof. <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888" href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/Clark.html">David Clark</a> articulated what would become <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888" href="https://www.ietf.org/tao.html">the creed</a> of the Internet engineering community.  He was giving a presentation <em><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888" href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/DDC/future_ietf_92.pdf">A Cloudy Crystal Ball: A Vision into the Future</a></em> at the <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888" href="http://www.ietf.org/old/2009/proceedings/prior29/IETF24.pdf">IETF</a>.  It was era of turmoil and uncertainty as the privatization of the Internet (the transformation of the Internet from <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#888888" href="http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/nsfnet.htm">NSFNET</a> to commercial networks) was in its infancy.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">During his presentation, based on Prof. Clark's slides, he made a number of additional curious observations:</span><br><br><ul style="padding:0px 2.5em;margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:1.4"><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Our best success was not computing, but hooking people together.</span></li><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The hacks of today are the commonplace of tomorrow.</span></li><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Security is a CRITICAL problem.</span></li><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What we should do: Fix insecure services: PASSWORDS</span></li><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The problem is assigning the correct degree of fear to distant elephants.</span></li><li style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If we have a problem it is due to too much success. </span></li></ul></div></div><div style="font-size:small"> </div><div style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​(from <a href="http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2016/07/1992-july-16-david-clark-articulates.html">http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2016/07/1992-july-16-david-clark-articulates.html</a> )​<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Joly MacFie</div><div>President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a>          </span><span><span id="gc-number-119" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span></div></div></div>
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