Stanford lecture -- Putting the Second and Third World on the Internet

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

                    EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium


                           Winter Qtr. 1993/94


                               Lecture #9




Date:           March 2, 1994


Time:           4:15 - 5:30pm


Location:       Terman Auditorium


Title:          Putting the Second and Third World on the Internet


Speaker:        Randy Bush, PSG  (randy () psg com)




                        Abstract


"Superhighway?  It's hard to get on the bus when it does not pass
through my country."


With the coming global information economy, the have nots will have
even less unless they get access to the information pipelines.  What
is the state of the networks in the second and third world, and what
is being and can be done?


                        Biography


Randy Bush is a compiler and realtime kernel writer and a software engineering
manager with over 25 years in the computer field.  He has been a user and
occasional implementor of networking in the US from the ARPANET to the
current day Internet, UUCP, and FidoNet.  He chaired the US Modula-2
language standards committee, and is the author (but not the designer) of
the basic FidoNet technical standards.


Randy has been involved in in integration of appropriate networking technology,
using FidoNet, UUCP, and TCP/IP, in Southern Africa for over five years.  He
sketched out and helped deploy a multi-country network using (in chronologic
order of deployment)
  o FidoNet technology on dialup lines,
  o UUCP on dialup lines,
  o low-cost IP technology based on 9600 baud and below links using old PCs
    and publicly available PC-based SLIP routing software, and finally
  o medium speed (64kb) leased links to the US NSFNET.


The UNDP and Union Latina chose Bush to do the technical work and
training for the first networking within Peru and to establish the
links to the US.  He was chosen by the US National Academy of Science
to catalyze and design the Indonesian national internet, IPTEKNET.  He
is the designer and technical coordinator of the Portland Oregon IP
metronet, RAINet.


Bush's international networking efforts are partially supported by an NSFNET
grant for the low-cost Network Startup Resource Center, in which he is co-PI
with John Klensin of MIT and the UN University.  Through the NSRC, Bush and
Klensin provide technical assistance and TCP/IP training for engineers in
developing countries.