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[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Alex R. Cohen" <arc () arclights net>
Date: July 23, 2004 1:05:17 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] History and technology

Dave--

I've received a number of responses, some of which look very promising.  
My thanks to you and to everyone who replied. For the benefit of anyone  
else looking for similar material, here are the suggestions* I have  
received in response to my request:

-Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999) (recommended by  
several IP'ers)

-Peter Salus's little 1995 book, "Casting the Net" (recommended by  
several IP'ers)

-"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet" by Katie  
Hafner (recommended by several IP'ers)

-FCC working papers that discuss Internet/Policy issues, beginning with  
Kevin Werbach's Digital Tornado paper and Jaxon Oxman's.

-CSTB's _Internet's Coming of Age_  and _Funding a Revolution_ (links  
below).
    
<http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_internet'scomingofage.html>
   <http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_revolution.html>

-Comer, D., The Internet Book: Everything you need to know about  
computer networking and how the Internet works, 3rd edition, 2000.

-"Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet"?  
There is an online edition at http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

-The upcoming issue of the Amateur Computerist newsletter has an  
article about the international contributions in the early creation of  
tcp/ip.

-The current issue of the Amateur Computerist has a long article about  
the early development of TCP/IP. It's at  
http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/ACn12-2.pdf

-Ronda Hauben, who suggested the three preceding items, also suggested  
(more of) her own material, at
   http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers
   http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/misc  
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other

-James W. Cortada, Making the Information Society (Financial  
Times/Prentice Hall, 2002)

-Books used for the CNE/MCSE tests. (Novell and Microsoft)

-L. Lessig. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.

-M. Waldrop. The Dream Machine: JCR Licklider and the Revolution that  
Made Computing Personal.

-T. Berners-Lee and M. Fishetti. Weaving the Web: The Original Designer  
and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor.

-IEEE history interviews, including one with Vint Cerf:  
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/oral_histories/ 
comsoc_oh.html

-http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/

-Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com

-Internet  (see everything there)  
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/Home_Internet.html

-Internet History http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/articles.html ;  
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/INTERESTINGSITES/hubsandspokes.html  
;  
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/ 
Guidlines_for_ISP's.html

-including ICANN  
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/Domain_Name.html

-Erik Davis, Techgnosis (about the underlying mythology which has made  
"information" the new holy grail)

-Milton L. Mueller, Ruling the Root (2002) (recommended once, with  
reservations)

*I'm omitting one that was already described in a posting to the list.

Again, thank you everyone.

--

        ALEX R. COHEN, J.D.

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Doctoral student, philosophy program

    City University of New York
         arc () arclights net
         www.arclights.net

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              LIBERTY

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