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The International Information Infrastructure
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 12:24:22 -0400
In my presentation in the keynote to the Frontiers on Communications conference in Tokyo of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, I took the position that, at least to the business and science community in the USA, a National Information Infrastructure must be just a small step on the way toward a truly international information system -- the III. It makes little sense for a company with world wide business (and that is not just GM) to convert to the full use of a NII and then face the discontinuity when international boundaries are reached. I called for a much grander vision on the part of the national leaders that they develop their local data highways as future components of a truly International Data Freeway. I posed to MPT and MITI and the audience the legal and ethical problems facing such a future as well as the obstacles that lie before us. I found their reactions after the talk to be more enthusiastic then I expected. Dave
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