RE: [atlarge-discuss] Polling Commitee: your 50 chars texts

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 09:27 24/05/03, Joop Teernstra said:
> At 05:19 p.m. 24/05/2003, Hugh Blair wrote:
> > Let's make sure the Internet is available for everyone.
> Mr Blair, :)
> What do you think about the Internet being available for convicts in jail?
This is an _excellent_ question.
Because it underlines that there is not such a thing as the "internet" 
except a concept.

You will excuse me to be somewhat long and technial. But _this is 
fundamental_ for all of us.

I explain. The internet, the way we think it, is a continuation of our 
system. And this is what it is: the "internetting" of our machine(s) with 
the rest of the world. This the way Bob Kahn, Vint Certf etc. built it, 
this is the way we (Tymnet and public international servies) interconnected 
it and supported its piping round the world. This is the way Jon Postel 
documented and managed it. But it is not the way Joe Sims, Louis Touton and 
Mike Roberts - and to some extent IAB - tought it.

Mike is retired. Joe is gone. Louis has resigned.

Yesterday, Paul Tawney has introduced a _verry_ odd ICANN staff 
organization which matches the spirit of 1984-RFC 920/1591, and may be our 
expectations. Quite far too soon to tell. But there is an indication.

What is important is there is an evolution whch give us back the internet 
as a "nets internetting". To understand let go into a quick understanding 
of the real architecture and the way it really work.

These internetted nets can be:
- hardware based : intranets - the machines of an organization: convicts 
can probably use it.
- software based : extranets - the systems are linked through the network. 
Convicts can probably use the systems of a company working wih the prison, 
with good security control.
- brainware based : l call them "externets". the virtual system of a 
community, of a ring. Usually identified through a common name, like 
".museum" or ".aero".

Until now ICANN considered the whole world as a USG intranet. This is the 
US law 47 USG 230 (f)(1). Postel said otherwise and Tawney seems too. The 
real life is that each of us is an intranet, and each communication we have 
establish and extranet and every relation we have is an externet.

How does that work together? When two networks want to build end to end 
connexions together they must interconnect. The internetting is about the 
way such interconnects can be estabilshed easily.
- to use compatible protocols (TCP/IP family, GNP or Tymnet/X75 gateways in 
the past)
- to support addressing plans correpondance (IPv4, IPv6 lnog discussions 
about E.164)
- to use a compatible naming plan (in having mutual TLDs into each rootfile).
The agreement of 1984 organized the gateways, the addressing plan and 
defined the legacy name space so ARPANET names would not conflict with 
International Public Monopolies names.

Today these interconnects to icannet are managed the same. Let consider my 
personal system.
- on my intranet I can use http://jefsey - actually (Uniname plan under 
work) I will use http://jefsey.h with a single letter private TLD.
- on my extranet (using my own root system for my own stystem accesses the 
same as icannet does) I can use http://jefsey.morfin
- when I must use icannet controlled resources, I need to be on the ICANN 
root, and I will use http://jefsey.morfin.org

So one sees that to interconnect I may either register with ICANN at ICANN 
root level or register at any TLD registry. This is documented by Jon 
Postel in RFC 920. If your net targets more than 500 registrants from 
various organization you can register a TLD. If it targets more than 50 you 
can register as a SLD.

Now, for us today. It means that our community externets (example 
atlarge.ws) can develop and become a member of Intlnet (http://intlnet.org) 
to dialog with ITU, ccTLDs, GAC, ICANN and if large enough to become a TLD 
by its own.

jfc


















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