Michael, Yes, a well organised catalogue of what exists plus some organisation willing to manage its continued existence (for a few hundred years, if possible) would be excellent, but I'm certain that <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history> is the place to develop a proposal for that. It means a lot of work, though. Regards Brian Carpenter On 29-Dec-20 13:14, Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 12/28/20 4:04 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: >> At the risk of being accused of self-promotion, documenting Internet history is kind >> of a side-effect of documenting “current and emerging” technologies, protocols and >> even policies. We did this with ConneXions—The Interoperability Report for example, >> and you can see the complete archive of 117 issues here: >> >> http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/Connexions/index.html >> >> A lot of interesting history there, including that whole “Components of OSI" saga, >> Network Management Wars, FTP’s Tiresome Problems, “What does the IAB Do, Anyway?” >> 3270 over Telnet, ISDN, SMDS, FDDI, X.25, and much, much more. Enjoy! >> >> We’re continuing this tradition today with The Internet Protocol Journal, see: >> >> http://www.protocoljournal.org >> >> Your input to what will eventually become “history” is always welcome! > > Oh yeah, I forgot about your journal! I guess what I'm worried about > most of all is that there is sort of a Rosetta Stone that translates for > future generations where to find everything (yes the analogy is > tortured, forgive me). It would be good to leave behind as much as > possible from as many angles as possible. > > Mike > > . >
