On April 30 2020, at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) Internet elders will gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1995 decommissioning of the NSFNET backbone, following the passage of Al Gore‘s High Performance Computing Act of 1991. This was the moment that the Internet fully transitioned from a government to a private enterprise.
A select group of the elders including Reed Hundt (former FCC Chairman); Esther Dyson (first CEO of ICANN); James Lewis (SVP CSIS); Tom Evslin (founder ITXC); Andrew Odlyzko (former Bell Labs and Prof U MN), Gary Shapiro, President, Consumer Technology Association, will discuss how the Internet has developed since the last such celebration, 5 years ago. The event will be hosted by Daniel Berninger of VCXC, and webcast via a partnership with the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter(ISOC-DC).
On June 24 2015 the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a symposium Completing the IP Transition: Confronting Technical Challenges and Maximizing Consumer Benefits. Given the premise that too little attention has been paid to either the underlying technical challenges or new consumer value of the the transition of today’s analog telephone network to the all-IP infrastructure of the Internet, participants considered the principle that reaching finish line requires policymakers and stakeholders to understand better the remaining engineering hurdles inherent in the on-going process, as well as the benefits that can be fully realized only with full implementation. The session comprised a keynote and two panels that explored these facets, technical and social. Video is below.
Keynote: Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University and former Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission
Introduction: John Mayo, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy, Georgetown University and Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
PANEL 1: Technical Challenges and How Best to Resolve Them
Speakers: Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University and Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University; David Farber, Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies, Carnegie Mellon University; Jon Peterson, Distinguished Fellow, Neustar; Don Parente, Director, Technology Strategy – Chief Architect, AT&T
PANEL 2: Opportunities for Enhanced Consumer Experience in an All-IP World
Speakers: Larry Downes, Project Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy; Brian Fontes, CEO, National Emergency Number Association; Debra Berlyn, President, Consumer Policy Solutions; Patrick Brogan, Vice President of Industry Analysis, USTelecom; Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University and Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University; Dan Berninger, Founder, VCXC
Today Thursday April 30 2015Tech Innovators – a civic initiative of Internet pioneers convened by VCXC founder Daniel Berninger – will celebrate the inaugural “Internet Independence Day” to mark the 20th anniversary of the commercialization of the Internet, following the decommissioning of the National Science Foundation’s NSFNET. The group has written to Congress requesting that April 30 be officially recognized as Internet Independence Day. Today’s inaugural event will include remarks by Bob Metcalfe, professor, University Texas; Bryan Martin, Chairman, 8×8; Charlie Giancarlo, senior advisor, Silver Lake; Dave Farber, professor emeritus CMU, board member, ISOC; George Gilder, author; Jeff Pulver, founder, Zula; John Gilmore, activist, co-founder EFF; John Perry Barlow, lyricist, co-founder EFF; Les Vadasz, former EVP, Intel; Mark Cuban, founder, AXS TV; Michael Robertson, founder, MP3.com; Ray Ozzie, founder, Talko; and Tim Draper, founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. It will webcast live on the Internet Society’s Livestream Channel.
On April 30 2020, at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) Internet elders will gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1995 decommissioning of the NSFNET backbone, following the passage of Al Gore‘s High Performance Computing Act of 1991. This was the moment that the Internet fully transitioned from a government to a private enterprise.
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