Comment les Pays-Bas ont inventé Internet
Le jeudi, 15 janvier 2009. - dagelijks
Ce soir je suis invité à une soirée de nouvel an, réservée à tous ceux qui font l'Internet aux Pays-Bas. Cette soirée spéciale est patronnée par l'Internet Society Nederland et ma boite. C'est une soirée spéciale parce qu'on fêtera les 20 ans de la présence d'Internet dans le Pays. Tout le gratin sera là. On fêtera aussi cette étape importante dans l'histoire globale du grand Ternet.
Histoire de l'Internet
Pour faire court, je vous invite à lire l'histoire d'Internet selon Wikipedia (en français). On réalise l'importance de cette connexion des Pays-Bas au réseau ARPANET en novembre 1988. Jusqu'alors, le réseau à l'orgine d'Internet était essenciellement militaire. Il y avait déjà des connexions transatlantiques avec la Norvège est le Royaume Uni mais ces connexions était réalisées dans le cadre d'accords militaires bilatéraux. Il y avait déjà des connexions non militaires au réseau mais ces dernières étaient cantonnés aux États-Unis.
Piet Beertema explique sur son site comment a pu obtenir une connexion à ce réseau pour le Centre de calculs mathématiques des Pays-Bas (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica ou CWI), un équivalent de l'INRIA en France.
Piet Beertema explique que The first national, international and intercontinental UUCP connections were established around 1982. The first open transatlantic Internet connectivity ("open" as opposed to "private" links, mainly for military and military-related purposes, like SATNET) for Europe started here at CWI, on 17 November 1988.
Ce qui signifie qu'en connectant les Pays-Bas à ARPANET le 17 novembre 1988, il transforme ce réseau privé militaire américain en un réseau public capable de devenir ce que nous connaissons aujourd'hui.
Quelques mois plus tard, début 1989 une deuxième connexion était mise en place entre NORDUnet et CWI/EUnet. Chaque ligne servant d'appoint pour l'autre selon le principe de fonctionnement d'Internet. Dans la même année, le réseau JUNET des universités japonaises se connectait au NSFNet (réseau de la recheche des États-Unis). C'est aussi en 1989 que le CERN (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire) basé en Suisse (et un eu aussi en France), ouvrait des liaisons TCP/IP vers d'autres réseaux comme celui du CWI et apporta sa modique contribution en inventant le web... Je crois aue je n'ai pas fait assez court, yen a déjà qui ont cliqué ailleurs...
La soirée
C'est une soirée très select. Ne me demandez pas d'invitation il y a déjà plus d'inscrits que le Felix Meritis d'Amsterdam peut recevoir. Il y aura des gens dont j'ai déjà parlé dans ce blog, comme SIDN ou AMS-IX et tout plein de gens que je connais depuis le RIPE 55. Un bon paquet de geeky nerds. La soirée promet d'être bien arrosée, 20 ans, ça se fête.
Commentaires
le jeudi, 12 février 2009.
Dear Alix,
we want to thank you for your participation in our New Years event at
Felix Meritis on Jan 16th, and hope you have enjoyed yourself as much
as we have. It was great to see the local internet community brought
together in one venue to celebrate the new year and the good work we
are all doing. We heard lightning talks on some fascinating issues such
as cybercrime, the semantic web, accessibility and so on. We enjoyed the
Chairmans' debate and the company of many old friends and
acquaintances, met interesting new people and had a good time
altogether.
Which is why we already started organising next years event, and plan
to make it even better. We have received valuable comments already. If
you also have suggestions, any at all, please let us know. And please
mark your calendar for:
the 2010 New Years party on Thursday January 14th 2010.
On behalf of the organisers,
Michiel Leenaars and Sandra Gijzen
P.S. If you can't wait that long, you might be interested in the first
European Mozcamp that will be hosted in Utrecht at SURFnet and is
organised by NLLGG, Internet Society Netherlands, W3C, Mozilla Europe
and others. See:
In the rest of this mail we want to supply you with the answers to questions such as.
* I saw camera's. Where are the pictures?
* Can I get the slides of the lightning talks?
* What does that T-shirt I got mean?
* I forgot to get my free ENUM account, now what?
* There was something about a discount
* Can I register for next year already?
* Thanks a bunch to ...
I SAW CAMERA'S. WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?
Thanks to Miriam van der Have, both board member of OpenDoc Society and
member of Internet Society Netherlands, we have quite a large amount of
nice professional images from the event itself. You can find them here:
http://isoc.nl/img/2009-ny/foto.htm
(or alternatively at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newwws/sets/72157612852313551 )
You are free to use them for whatever (non-commercial) purpose you
like, please have the courtesy to include a proper reference. If you
have more pictures, we can put them online as well.
CAN I GET THE SLIDES OF THE LIGHTNING TALKS?
Yes you can. You can find all the slides on the Internet Society
website:
http://isoc.nl/activ/2009-newyear.htm
In fact, if you really like slides: we even posted all the New Years
messages that were shown on the main screen to the website here:
http://isoc.nl/img/2009-ny
So if you are interested in one of the job openings, or forgot to write
the name of that game accessibility website - just look it up.
WHAT DOES THAT T-SHIRT I GOT MEAN?
Hopefully you picked up a T-shirt in the patio where we had about 400
of these cool T-shirts to give away in all sizes. The back of the shirt
contained the oldest drawing known of the ARPANET, drawn 40 years ago
on a napkin this september. It shows the first two nodes of this
historical precursor to the internet. The graphic on the front side
contains two elements: the first is the 'universally applicable
fingerprint' of German minister of the interior Wolfgang Schauble, as
published by the German hackers from Chaos Computer Club last year as
part of the societal debate on including biometric data in identity
documents. The second is the famous 'fork bomb' poem by Amsterdam based
writer, programmer and activist Jaromil. In just thirteen attractive
characters of shell code you will find enough recursive power to bring
any UNIX-based system to a halt - and it looks pretty too. You work out
what that means, if anything.
We still have some extra shirts. If you join ISOC now (or indicated you
will join ISOC when you registered and send us a mail that you didn't
get your shirt at the event), we'll send you one. Get it while stocks
last, please indicate your preferred size when you mail us at
ny2009@isoc.nl
I FORGOT TO GET MY FREE USER ENUM ACCOUNT.
With all those kind people, free drinks and talks you may have
forgotten to get your free ENUM account from the nice people at SIDN.
ENUM is basically a way to bridge telephony with the internet world -
actually anything a device running over the internet may want to know
about you when dialing your number. This includes your VoIP
reachability, instant messaging, real time text capacity, geographical
coordinates or where you publish your home page, twitter feed or GPG
key. If you are a developer, SIDN will be glad to help you to
understand this technology and create exiting applications for it. If
you are a consumer, get it and see what will happen with this pretty
interesting technology without any risk or cost - so that next year you
will be one of those people that can claim to be one of the first 500
people working with this new internet standard here in the Netherlands.
Now for those of you from abroad, sorry, you can only register Dutch
phone numbers (but if you want you can ask someone here to buy a local
SIM card for your cell phone and it'll work for you as well).
SIDN has extended the period in which you register an account up to
February 16th. This can be done by sending an email with your contact
details to: support@enum.nl.
THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT A DISCOUNT
Hxx foundation, organisers of the upcoming Hacking at Random conference
in August this year, were so friendly as to promise all the
participants of this new years event a discount to their hacker
conference extra-ordinaire. HAR is the celebratory fifth installment of
a major international conference held every four year in the
Netherlands. There will be thousands of IT-securityprofessionals
flocking to Vierhouten to look at criticial security issues on the
internet, but you will have the privilige of having paid less than them
if you claim your 5 euro discount with the code ISOC.
Register at: http://www.har2009.org
CAN I REGISTER FOR NEXT YEAR ALREADY?
Sure you can. Just go to http://isoc.nl/registratie as you did before.
The event will take place on January 14th 2009, and the venue will be
Pakhuis de Zwijger.
THANKS A BUNCH TO ...
We want to thank Jeroen Bulten, Dick Bulterman, Ivan Herman, Koen
Martens, Tom Peelen, Steven Pemberton, Eric Velleman, Ruud Vriens,
Annemarie Zielstra for their lightning talks. Jan Willem Broekema,
Daniel Karrenberg, Olaf Kolkman, Bert-Jaap Koops, Cees de Laat (filling
in for Bert Bakker who fell ill) and Monique van Dusseldorp (filling in
for Tom Kok who was absent for that same reason) for their wise words
during the Chairman's Debate. We want to thank all the sponsors -
AMS-ix, AT computing, DHPA, ISPconnect, Internet Society Netherlands,
Gridforum.nl, NLnet, Rednose, RIPE NCC, SIDN, SURFnet and TERENA. There
is no such thing as a free drink, unless someone pays for it. Further
thanks to Davina de Ranitz from the Felix Meritis team, Jan Willem
Broekema for being more onstage than offstage, Cees Segers for
logistics, Jaromil for writing the fork bomb code on the T-shirt, Chaos
Computer Club for getting the fingerprint from their Minister of the
Interior Wolfgang Schauble for that same shirt. Wessel de Valk and Jak
Boumans for their stewardship of the WSA.
And of course the staff, members, boards, supervisory boards, assurers,
users and fellows of:
Accessibility.nl - accessibility of ICT for people with disabilities
AMS-ix - the biggeset internetexchange on the planet
Bits of Freedom a.i.- foundation that stands for digital civil rights
CAcert - hands out digital security certificates
Dutch Hosting Provider Association - association of hosting companies
Free Knowledge Institute - promotes free knowledge and free software
Gridforum.nl - association for grid and cloud professionals
Hxx - organises ao. Hacking at Random 2009
ISPconnect - association of Internet Service Providers
Internet Society Nederland - vereniging die hoedt over het internet
NLnet - filantropic investor stimulating open technologies
NLnet Labs - R&D in the area of internet technology
Oophaga - stimulates safety, security and privacy
OpenDoc Society - knowledge platform around open document formats
RIPE NCC - Regional Internet Registry (RIR)
SELF - platform for free educational and training materials
SIDN - the organisation behing .nl and ENUM in Nederland
SURFnet - national research network for higher education and research
Terena - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
Vereniging Open Domein - the public domain on the internet
Vrijschrift - information freedom and protection of privacy
W3C Benelux - the Benelux office of the web standards organisation
And all of you for showing up and making it a great event!