IP: more on Now we have a new internet daddy

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:15:26 -0700
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: Now we have a new internet daddy

> Tim??!! No COMMENT!!!
>
>
> LAWRENCE ROBERTS,ROBERT KAHN,VINTON CERF & TIM BERNERS-LEE,FOUNDING
> FATHERS OF INTERNET,PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR TECHNICAL AND
> SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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> www.fpa.es/ing

    So why not add Tim, too, to the ever growing list of fathers of
    the Internet? After all, success has many fathers...

    Reading through the press release caused me to wonder how well the
    august jury did their homework to conclude that Larry Roberts
    is "... now the president of Caspian Networks, one of the
    United State's premier applied research centres."?

    As a former, early employee Packetcom/Caspian and current
    stockholder of Caspian Networks Inc., I can categorically state
    that Caspian is a private corporation engaged in developing a
    product for the core of carrier IP networks and most assuredly
    NOT a research center!   Perhaps the concept of a start-up
    company didn't survive the translation from English to Spanish?

    While Larry, Vint, Bob, and Tim will get to split the ~$1 million
    prize, the rest of us can pat ourselves and each other on the
    back for a job well done:

    "A myriad of people and institutions were involved in this work.
    The jury wishes to acknowledge them all in awarding the prize to
    the four leaders of so extraordinary a development."



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