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>> Welcome to the Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Awards Ceremony.
[ Audience Applause ]
Well as you have seen it outside it's pretty warm, even unusual
for Germany, but thanks to the air condition, so it's going
to be an enjoyable temperature and a exciting evening.
My name is Amius [assumed spelling] by the way
and I'm very honored to be part of this historic gathering
of internet leaders and innovators.
Last year the Internet Society founded the Internet Hall
of Fame as an annual recognition program that honors pioneers,
leaders, and luminaries who have made significant contributions
to the advancement and expansion of the global internet.
Well, to share thoughts of this program
and on the extraordinary group of individuals
that we will recognize today,
I would like to introduce Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO
of the Internet Society.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you.
It's an honor to be able to join you all here today
for this wonderful occasion, and I must admit,
at the same time, quite intimidating.
So recognized for their groundbreaking contributions
to the Global Internet this year's inductees comprise a
diverse group of some
of the world's most influential engineers, innovators,
activists, and entrepreneurs.
Since our initial launch last year the Internet Hall
of Fame is going from strength to strength.
Many of the inductees are known worldwide.
Others have played an important,
yet perhaps a more behind-the-scenes role.
Together, though, they have given the Internet its global
reach, contributed to and upheld its ideals,
worked hard to preserve its openness,
and how to make it accessible to people around the world.
The Internet wouldn't be what it is without your efforts,
and on behalf of the Internet Society Board of Trustees
and the Internet Society we're extremely pleased to be able
to facilitate such an appropriate recognition.
I'd also like to take a moment to thank our sponsor, Afilias,
who has been a partner with the Internet Society for a very,
very long time, and we are always very thankful
and grateful for your support.
So with that I would like to introduce Bob Hendon.
The Internet Society Board of Trustees is meeting here
in Berlin today and tomorrow, and this is our annual AGM,
and we elected a new Chair.
We elected a Chair for the year.
Happens to be a new incoming Chair and that's Bob Hendon.
Bob.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you very much.
I'm very proud to be here at the Hall of Fame.
I'm very happy to be here to, you know, see the new inductees
and recognize their important contributions.
As the Internet continues to evolve
and grow I think it's also very exciting to think
that we'll see innovations coming from people who are not
yet connected to the Internet, so it's --
the Internet will continue to expand and evolve,
and the Internet Hall of Fame will recognize these people
as they become instrumental in building the Internet
for future generations.
So on behalf of the Internet Society Board
of Trustees we are very proud to support the program
that celebrates the history of the internet and the people
who have an important role in making the Internet a reality.
Thank you.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you, Bob.
So before we get on to the ceremony I'd actually
like to recognize the Internet Hall of Fame Advisory Board
for their efforts in selecting this year's inductees.
The Advisory Board is an international committee
that spans many Internet industry segments
and backgrounds that come
from across the global Internet community in order
to select the inductees as our goal is to have these awards be
for the community and from the community
which is no small task.
The full list of Advisory Board Members is up on the screen,
and we are pleased to have two members actually joining us here
and present today, and that's Raul Echeverria --
he's also on the Internet Society Board --
and Andrea Vieux.
So please join me in thanking Raul, Andrea,
and all the Advisory Board members [background applause]
for all their [inaudible] participation.
[ Audience Applause ]
We're also very honored to have several of our 2012 Hall
of Fame Inductees here: Elizabeth Feinler is there
in the second row, perhaps better known as Jake Feinler,
who also this year -- earlier this week
at the Internet Engineering Task Force meeting --
received the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award and gave a very,
very touching, moving speech at the IETF.
Randy Bush is also here, right there at the doorway.
Toto Takahashi.
And, of course, Vince Surf.
Vince, not only a father of the Internet, he's also a founder
of the Internet Society and served as its first president
and he's actually going to take a few moments
and share some thoughts with us today.
So, Vince.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> This is quite dangerous
because the former Stanford professor
with an open microphone and you're trapped in this room,
so how much time do I have?
First of all, let me say
that this is a very important function to perform.
The most important thing about the Internet is
that it is a gigantic collaboration.
We all know that.
Every person sitting in this room, anyone who's ever looked
at a chart of the Internet and see how it's interconnected,
to see how many hundreds of thousands
of organizations voluntarily follow a set of standards
and connect together making bilateral decisions.
No one enforces any of this top down.
This is all done bottom up.
And so when the Internet Society was first formed it was my
thought and belief
that a society would literally arise out of the Internet.
And although I think we're seeing that,
we may be seeing multiple societies,
we may be seeing many different faces
of societies, not just one.
But the thing that binds us all together is this ability
to share our thoughts, to share our ideas,
and to freely get access to the Internet's resources.
This is something that the Internet Society has struggled
to preserve and will continue to do so as will many of us
with many other hats on.
But tonight it's a special occasion
to recognize those many people who have worked
to make this system what it is now.
There's going to be lot of work for the Internet Hall of Fame
because as time goes on more
and more people will deserve recognition and we will all have
to seek to make sure they get it.
Thank you.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> All right, so.
Thank you very much.
So now for the awards.
I think you're all ready for this part.
We will announce our 2013 inductees,
and when your name is announced we will ask you to come
up to the stage and, of course, make a few brief remarks.
We have a sample of the awards on the table which is outside.
I've seen already when you entered
to this room you have seen it already.
So it's quite large, and so we will ship your award
to your home in the next several weeks.
So make sure you will get it.
Today when you come up to the stage,
Lynn will hand you a leather portfolio --
they're over there --
and certificate as a keepsake from this event.
These are the very important informations and we,
ladies and gentlemen, can start with the first category
which is the Innovators Category,
recognizing individuals who made outstanding technological,
commercial, or policy advances and help
to expand the Internet's reach.
Co-authored the first widely-used browser, Mosaic,
and co-founded Netscape.
Well, he is not today with us but accept
on his behalf your applause for Marc Andreessen.
[ Audience Applause ]
The next person is present.
So co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
please welcome to the stage John Perry Barlow.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> I'd say I was humbled by this, but I usually reserve
that for when my car's been towed.
I'm very deeply honored, surprised, and gratified.
I am a member of another Hall of Fame which is the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame, and let me tell you,
there is a lot more narcissism involved.
And one of the things I really love about this is
that I'm looking at people whose ideas were the important thing
and who knew that and who knew the elegant solution
when they saw it and caused it to be born.
And I'm grateful to all of you because, you know, I care a lot
about the architecture of the Internet.
You can't endow liberty in the absence of the ability
to take it away, and so it has to be part of the architecture.
And each and every one of you has been an enormous part
of creating a system that is difficult to shut up
and I am very profoundly grateful to you for all of that.
And finally I want to accept this also on behalf
of some people that I hope are one day members
of the Internet Hall of Fame, and they are Edward Snowden,
Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange.
Thank you.
[ Audience Applause ]
Thank you very much.
I'm Perry Barlow.
>> So, innovator in implementing DNS Security
of [inaudible] technology and usage procedures, please welcome
to the stage Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder .
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
This is a very great honor and I'm proud, honored,
but not so little surprised to be here.
But still, even though I'm not a troublemaker,
I may not be an evangelist,
but I'm a really, really stubborn lady.
And I've been working with DNS I think since 1999
when I studied my first project in that area.
And we signed the Swedish top-level domain 2005 being the
first one, and then I pushed the others in front
of me trying hard to get them to follow us.
And today I would say
that DNSSEC is operational its day-to-day business.
And I'm very glad to see that happen because, you know what?
DNS is a wonderful piece of engineering art and we need
to protect it as good as we can.
So, thank you very much for having me here,
and being working I am doing every day is a reward in itself.
Getting rewarded for it is even better.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> Thank you very much, Anne-Marie Edlund Lowender.
So let's continue.
[Speaking in foreign language].
Right? Contributed to creation
of the pan-European Internet backbone, please welcome
to the stage Francois Fluckiger.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Good evening, everyone.
I come from CERN, the place
where we discovered the Higgs boson, you know,
the God particle [laughter] that fills the entire vacuum
between meta particles and which gave their mass
to those who deserve it .
CERN is a place where we try and understand
where the universe come from and to do that we need technology.
This is why we developed the Web.
But we also need a little infrastructure
and this is why we contributed to the creation
of the European Internet.
That's why I am here tonight.
This is with huge pride but also with great humility
because it was a collective undertaking.
This [inaudible] toast myself who was --
this award also goes to all of those in Europe
who helped creating the Internet.
Just to name a few: Peter Roseburg,
Don Ashterton [assumed spelling] for the guys,
and Peter [inaudible], Dennis Jennings,
only hereafter, and so anyways.
But that is why many of you probably know
that in '93 CERN put the Web software
in the public domain in '93.
In '94, when Kim Gunderslee [assumed spelling] left CERN
[inaudible] I talk about him.
My third job was to release the next version of the Web,
so Version 3, the famous Version 3.
But we had learned --
we listened, we heard what you reach out were telling us.
And I released Version 3 as free software.
It was the first time.
But, look, that been a year of vacuum, a property vacuum
for the Web software where anyone could have taken away
and denied others to use it freely.
But this did not happen.
Why? Why did it not happen?
Maybe because just the vacuum is not empty.
It is full of [inaudible] [audience laughter]
[audience applause].
>> Thank you very much, [inaudible].
Francois Fluckiger [audience applause].
Very entertaining.
So, let's bring our next award winner to the stage.
Leader in the architecture of network securities systems,
please welcome Stephen Kent.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Well it occurred to me belatedly
that I really should just tweet my acceptance speech
[audience laughter].
Except I don't have a Twitter account
so it makes it harder [audience laughter].
I'm honored to be among so many others who are in the first
and now in this second group of people to be inducted
to this Hall of Fame because of significant contributions
that they have made and it makes me feel good to be
in that kind of category.
I'm especially proud to see Vint in the second row.
I've known Vint since about 1977.
He's been a role model for me not only in the technical domain
but as a wine and food lover as well.
Finally, of course, I want to thank the directors,
the screen writers, the key grip, the [inaudible].
Whoops, wrong acceptance speech.
Sorry about that.
Thank you.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Let's continue.
Co-developed protocols used by almost all internets, telephony,
and multimedia applications.
Please welcome to the stage Henning Schulzrinne.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> I'm honored and proud to accept the award on behalf
of all the people who have made real-time communication
with the Internet possible, who have made it possible
that we can now seriously think
about replacing a legacy 100 year old telephone network
by a more modern version of that,
the only Internet-based version, probably the last vestige
of the old communication infrastructure
that we still had to tackle.
And I'm glad many of us were able to do that together.
As part of the evolution of this technology I've been pleased,
or in some cases not so much,
to be part of six phases of the technology.
I know some of you know kind of the gardner type of phases
with hype and disillusionment and all that.
I don't think that quite worked in that case.
The first phase was why bother?
We have perfectly find telephone network.
Why do you bother with doing this OIP?
It can barely sound good,
let alone do all the features you had.
Fortunately, Vint, in this first phase,
was able to provide encouragement when he was still
at MCI to say, "Mm, may be worth pursuing."
The second phase is nobody cared.
That's a really good thing
because you can actually do engineering work
without having [background laughter] grand ambitions
or having lots of people, say, of a standards organizations,
suddenly get interested.
They didn't know what was hitting them.
Then there's the usual hype phase
and implementation phase and all that.
Then comes, unfortunately, the patent lawyer phase [laughter].
I could, if I wanted to, and I suspect some
of my friends have used us to their advantage even
if they had never filed a patent themselves
as witnesses on the other side.
And then, unfortunately, we also gets to a phase
where your kids no longer think this is cool technology.
"Voice? Who would use that?"
says my daughter.
And, unfortunately, now we're in one of the other phases
which I find myself in, namely the clean-up phase.
What was not in reappreciation that I'm probably also,
at least to some small extent, responsible for just
about every robo call that you have ever received
[audience laughter].
And I'm now in the process, at least I hope,
to help clean up some of that mess.
With that, thank you so much -- much appreciated.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you very much, Henning Schulzrinne.
Very shortly, but enormous,
founder of the Free Software Foundation, please welcome
to the stage Richard Stallman.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> So 30 years ago, if you wanted to get a new computer
and use it, you had to surrender your freedom
by installing a user subjugating proprietary operating system.
So I decided to fix that by developing another operating
system and make it free, and it's called GNU but most
of the time you'll hear people erroneously calling it Linux
[audience laughter].
Please, please give us equal mention.
Linux is the name of one component,
the kernel of this system.
If you call it GNA Plus Linux you'll give the principal
developers equal mention.
However, of course, we also with our computers nowadays talk
to the Internet which is another way
that our freedom can be taken away.
The Internet was originally designed with the idea
that your computer could talk with my computer if we wanted
to do something together -- the end-to-end principle.
But this has been trashed by a bunch of companies like ISPs
that don't allow people's --
the subscribers to receive connections, computers designed
to be so weak that the only thing you can do
with them is use them as front-end
for centralized services and, of course, the companies that set
up these centralized services to try to surveil people as much
as possible and hand over all the information they collect
to the NSA which turns the whole thing into something monstrous.
So if we want the Internet to be something good for you
and freedom, instead of the final curtain call
for human freedom, we need to fight hard.
And above all we've got to beware
of anyone proposing smart this or that that's going to talk
to the Internet or the Internet of Things.
Their idea, I guess, is that every appliance
in your house would be yet another surveillance opportunity
for the NSA to -- and also if it's running non-free software
and another way for companies to control you
and probably have bad security so that they can mistreat --
that lots of others can mistreat you.
I won't let any of the things in my domicile be part
of the Internet of Things unless it's running free software
and set up by people I know I can trust not to turn it
into a denicle [phonetic] of surveillance.
And one of the things we need to prevent this is proper laws.
That is, not the laws businesses want.
For instance, if we switch from using landline telephones
to Voice Over IP, for that to be a step forward rather
than a step back, we've got to make sure
that common carrier laws that apply to landline telephones,
except where they succeeded in a --
companies have succeeded in purchasing the abolition
of these good regulations -- we ought to make sure it's the same
for any replacement system that we might use which translates,
basically, into network neutrality.
We've got to have the totally clear
and firm network neutrality just as firm as for telephone lines.
So if you agree with any of this stuff, you might want
to join the Free Software Foundation
at fsf.org [audience laughter] [audience applause].
>> [Background applause].
Thank you very much, Richard Stallman.
We are still in the Innovators Category.
And coming up now, co-authored RSS Version 1.0,
co-owner of Reddits, an early architect of creative comments.
So this will be award posthumous.
His father, Robert Swartz, is accepting the award.
And the award goes to Aaron Swartz.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> I want to say that I'm humbled
and honored to be here tonight.
And my only wish is that Aaron would be here
to accept this award.
Aaron fought tirelessly to make information free
and keep the Internet free,
and to make academic research available
for free among other things.
He was pursued by bad laws, vindictive prosecution,
and uncaring institutions,
and I hope that we can all move forward to try
to change those things so that the tragedy that occurred
to Aaron doesn't occur to anyone else.
Thank you.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> A very emotional moment.
Let's try to continue.
So fueled the online user collaboration and sharing trend
as founder of Wikipedia, award winner Jimmy Wales.
But, of course, he tonight cannot be with us
so Jimmy could not join us today and sends his regrets.
His full acceptance speech as well as those of several others
who couldn't attend will be posted
on the Internet Hall of Fame website.
Jimmy wanted to express that he did not feel he could accept
this honor in his name alone and wanted to call
out the incredible community of Wikipedians who are the heart
and soul of the project.
He said that the original vision statement for Wikipedia is
for all of us to imagine a world in which every single person
on the planet is giving free access to the sum
of all human knowledge.
Jimmy knows that there are now more
than 500 million people per month reading Wikipedia
across more than 200 languages.
That's quite an amazing accomplishment
and we congratulate Jimmy Wales.
[ Audience Applause ]
So that was the first category, and we coming up now
to the second category.
That's the Global Connectors.
Recognizing individuals from around the world
who have made significant contributions
to the global growth and use of the Internet.
Networking leader who used ICTs and applications
as tools for social change.
Unfortunately she couldn't share this beautiful evening
with us but, of course, we honor her tonight.
The award goes to Karen Banks.
[ Audience Applause ]
Our next award winner.
Instrumental in establishing the Academic Internet in Sri Lanka,
please welcome on the stage is Gihan Dias.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you.
I'm really grateful for this honor,
but really it is not just me.
There are many, many people behind this
so let me talk about the story.
It started in the mid-1980s when I
and many other people were graduations in the U.S.
And we found this great technology called email
which allowed us to talk to each other.
But we didn't have that back in Sri Lanka so we set up a network
to connect all the people, not just in the U.S.,
but all of the world, and call it SLNet, Sri Lanka Network.
And that was really one
of the first social networks [inaudible] but one of the first
which was set up globally,
long before the word social network was every coined.
And then we found, okay, we needed funding.
We set up a non-profit organization called [inaudible]
Network to fund this initiative.
And so I think this is how it all started.
Then in 1992 when I was back in Sri Lanka we said, okay,
let's start this Internet here in Sri Lanka and we set it up
and again the funding came from the same community.
We just got $300 from the government, but that's okay,
we did it anyway [audience laughter].
And as things continued we set up the network.
We couldn't put everybody.
Again it was many, many people all around the country as well
as other countries, and especially I'm grateful
for the funding we got from international organizations
such as the Swedish Government for making that happen.
Then in 2002 I took up another challenge.
That is, how do we make these computers available for people
who do not speak English?
So in our country we have two languages: Sinhala and Tamil.
We [inaudible] it in different scripts,
not the writing script we use for English.
So how do we get all these computers for one's tablets
on the devices to use those languages?
It was a difficult task because these were quite
small languages.
Only several million people use them.
And the vendors were not interested in small language,
but how we worked, we persevered and we had first Windows,
then Linux, then [inaudible]
and then various other platforms also supporting this.
And now we need contained, so we went around.
I said, "Okay, let's how do we do the contain?"
And that's really what kept me busy
for the last maybe 20 or 25 years.
But right now we have more challenges.
We need to make this Internet accessible
to everyone at affordable price.
We need to ensure cyber safety, that we are not endangered
by being on the Net, and privacy, that we do not give
up our rights [inaudible] at this Internet.
So I think there's a lot more work to be done.
Let me conclude by saying that I thank the Internet Society
for this, but it is not really for me.
It is for all the people, all the people
who helped the entire community to achieve what we have done.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> Thank you round to Gihan Dias.
She helped establish email
and Internet's connectivity in Southern Africa.
She apologized that she cannot be here today.
So we all applause to Annriette Esterhuysen.
[ Audience Applause ]
He guided the connection of approx 25 countries in Europe,
Latin America, and East Asia to NSFNET.
Please welcome to the stage Steven Goldstein.
[ Audience Applause ]
[ Silence ]
>> Thanks.
As I was coming over toward Brussels in the airplane,
happened to look down the window and there was the Straits
of Dover, and the melody just came to my mind --
you know, "I'm flying over the white cliffs of Dover,"
a World War II melody.
And it reminded me that I am not of this Internet generation.
I was of a previous Internet generation
and in my Internet generation countries were just developing
64 kilobyte per second networks and were looking to connect
to what was then the center of gravity of the Internet
which was the NSFNET, and I was working at NSF.
And I took it upon myself as my mission
to help them connect to us.
And in doing that I met with a good deal of resistance,
some within my own agency and some from sister agencies
of the U.S. Government who didn't want NSF
to get out in front of them.
So a lot of my activity really was what you would politely call
advocacy and it was dealing with this resistance.
But we managed with the Internet Connections Manager Award to one
by one connect countries
of roughly 64 kilobytes per second to the NSFNET.
And then by the mid-'90s when the NSFNET was decommissioned
but we had faster network, development networks,
we followed Al Gore's initiative to have a connection point
for 45 megabyte per second networks which at
that point were considered to be broadband.
And then toward, just beyond 2000, a global ring
for dedicated wavelength around the world
for computationally intensive research --
that involved the founding countries.
You wouldn't believe this is if you didn't know about it:
Russia, China, and the United States together,
and GLORIAD still exists.
So in all of that, as I said, some of it was a bit
of a rough slog but it was very rewarding
and I wish I could thank all the people in all the countries
who were our partners and in the United States my awardees
and other people who worked very hard
with me to make this happen.
This certainly wasn't mine alone.
But two people that I want to recognize --
one, was a fellow awardee today, my boss, Steve Wolf,
because Steve pretended to look the other way
and let me do my thing as long as I pretended to stay
out of trouble [audience laughter].
And that wasn't easy.
And the guy that kept me
out of trouble was my very good colleague Don Mitchell.
Don knew more about the rules and regulations
of the U.S. Government and the National Science Foundation
than almost anybody else.
So he helped me steer around the rough parts and he, with me,
helped to bend the rules but not break them.
And without his help and without the cooperation of partners all
over the world, really,
we wouldn't have been able to do what we did.
So that's the story in a capsule.
And I certainly thank the Internet Society
and the advisory group who were kind enough to choose me
for this honor, and in the name of all the people that worked
with me to make all these things happen, I thank you
and I am deeply honored.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you very much -- Steven Goldstein.
Initiated European Unix User Group and started EUNets,
please welcome to the stage Teus Hagen.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> At the time we started the new Linux system was not there.
So we used Unix systems to connect them to each other
and trying to connect them via dial log lines.
Later on the [inaudible] and disparity stack existed.
But the whole thing was possible when I learned later
on by the blueprint for making the innovations okay.
And that book is written in 1962.
It's written by Everett Rogers who should thank Gabriel Pardon
who had those ideas and the book is call Diffusion
of Innovation, and I urge you to read that book
or if you have your Google device with you, look it up
and look up the Diffusion of Innovation for Healthcare,
for that's not 500 pages and that's only three pages
and gives you 10 rules to obey to make things happening
and to disseminate those things.
And what you need for that, and I will do
that in a little bit, is simplistic.
Think about that and think about simplicity
and the complexity which we get on now.
And what you also need to do is tryability and compatibility
and relative advantage and what you --
above all need is what I call daredevils.
And those daredevils make the whole Internet going on.
And I think -- I was just in charge,
I was just directing things, but all those people with me
and all those people with you,
we have to thank them all for doing this.
And thank you for the openness and freedom.
Keep with thanking that.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> [Background applause] Thank you very much, Teus Hagen.
So our next Global Connector is award winner, instrumental
in development of first networks
that undertake the Internet in Latin America.
Please welcome Ida Holz.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you very much.
I am very honored to receive this recognition.
However, I am not sure if I deserve it.
I think there are so many people that have contributed
to the growth and expansion of Internet that it is very,
very difficult to choose who deserve this.
For developing country like ours, Internet is a means
of collaborate and exist new rich all around the world alike.
And this was [inaudible] celebrate the progress
of our countries.
In Latin America and in Bolivia in 1991,
and I remember very well Steven who help us so much.
We started to recognize and to organize ourselves to build
up regional agreement for the development of Internet.
And they all said we've had a volume of academic networks.
Later we found in technique [inaudible]
and also ISOC in Latin America.
With the help of the European Commission in 2003 we began
to build the Latin America Advance Network Academique CLARA
which is connected to Europe as well as network
in [inaudible] and to Internet.
While this organization have enabled our countries
to work collaboratively so as to foster the development
in Latin America and have allowed us
to reach the development
of international and reach together.
Thank you very much, thank you [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Thanks
to you, Ida Holz.
Led the NCFC Project and to bring the Internet
to Mainland China, please welcome to the stage Qiheng Hu.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> This honor for me is too hard.
At this exciting moment, my sincere gratitude first
of all goes to the initiators and creators
of the great Internet which has changed
and is changing the world, including my country.
Secondly, I would pay my high respect and gratitude to ISOC
as the primary nurturer and leader
of the global Internet community, and many individuals
of this community who have devoted their support
to promote the Internet development in China.
And thirdly, I would like to thank also my Chinese colleagues
during their efforts in the early years to lay the road
for the Internet entering China.
I think the honor
of international [inaudible] precious gift and encouragement
to the Chinese Internet Community.
The users [inaudible] providing services
and the many researchers in the technology
and application innovators.
They are trying their best
to blaze the new trails contributing
to the global Internet revolution.
And also many, many young self-starters
who are fighting their way out with the Internet
and promising the future prosperous.
After 20 years having the Internet
in Chinese people's life when we look back now what we find is a
big change in the society and in people themselves.
The Internet has dramatically accelerated the stepping forward
course of my country.
I believe the better future is related
with the global multi stakeholders of them.
The Chinese Internet community is a vibrant part.
Being able to join my tiny efforts to the historical stream
of mankind, to bring the great Internet to life in my country,
that is my lifetime honor and the happiest thing
that is permanently deep in my heart.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> Global Connectors award to Qiheng Hu.
Well, awarded posthumous.
Leader in introducing UNIX computing
and internet working to Japan.
His wife Junko Ishida is accepting the award
and the award goes to Haruhisa Ishida.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Hello, everybody.
I am very happy to be here today and I'm very honored
to be here today and I would
like to extend my husband's gratitude to you.
Well, how he submit computer science when he was 23
in his Master's Course.
And since then it's been nearly 50 years and all
through that time I'm sure he was fascinated in this field
of study and happily worked and was very --
well, he was happy working with people of computer science
and working for Internet for computer,
and this is all what I can say.
I know nothing about computer science [audience laughter].
Thank you very much [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Thank you very much.
Posthumous for Haruhisa Ishida taken by his wife, Junko Ishida.
One more award posthumous.
Envisioned in how the established Internet Activities
Board which led the effort
to set Internet technical standards.
We are happy that his brother, Dave Leiner is present
and will accepting the awards for Barry Leiner.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Wow. Well, along with Barry's wife, Ellen, and his children,
Jason and Deidre, I'm just -- the rest of the family,
of course, I'm just thrilled to be here on behalf of my brother.
But we also want to thank the Internet Society for allowing us
to participate in this just wonderful event.
Well, the family knew of Barry's involvement with the Internet
but he was always so matter of fact about it
that we knew very little about the extent
of his roles and contributions.
His -- Jason told me before I left
that he remembers Barry telling him,
"Just make society a better place."
That was Barry.
We now realize how profound a role he played
in doing just that.
Barry had a remarkable ability
to bring together diverse people, organizations,
to help make decisions and the plans
that became the Internet as we know it today.
From what I've seen over the past couple of days the people
in this room, very passionate and have no shortage of opinions
about how to do that, so it must have been quite a challenge.
Well, it seems quite fitting and even ironic
that his family should accept this award for him
since he much preferred accomplishment
to any personal recognition.
So with that in mind, I'm very, very pleased
to accept this honor for my brother,
Barry [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Posthumous Global
Connectors, so, Barry Leiner.
Well, he aided in deployment of Information Technology to more
than 50 developing countries, please welcome
to the stage George Sadowsky.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> So I'd like to tell you a story.
In 1981 -- in particular, in the spring of 1981 --
I found myself in Kigali, Rwanda.
The background was that in 1973 I'd signed on to the UN
as a technical advisor in computer methods just
as the [inaudible] Consensus Program was starting
and we were installing new computers
in almost every country in Sub-Sahara in Africa
with the exception of South Africa.
I was there because the agent that we had sent
over to install a Honeywell minicomputer,
which only required 10 KVA of uninterruptable power supply
to work, couldn't get the computer to work.
So I was sent.
And after a few days we took care of most
of the simple problems but we still couldn't get the computer
to accept the operating system, Tape.
So, clearly, what do you do?
Well, you go back to the manufacturer or you go back
to a colleague and ask.
At that point the Rwanda had radio telephone service
and a two-hour window out of every 24,
and it reached New York, the East Coast, at between 2:00 a.m.
and 4:00 a.m. You could get a plane and fly out, a turnaround,
and would be certain that the turnaround time was pretty long.
Or you could go through the UN Telex Operator the first --
actually email.
The Telex Operator had a censor -- that's spelled C-E-N-S-O-R --
whose job it was, apparently, to strike out every other word,
or certainly to remove enough words
so that the content was thoroughly ambiguous.
And he had a colleague on the other side,
so the reply got the same treatment.
So to make a long story short, after two weeks we were nowhere.
And it drove home to me the concept of information poverty
in a way that no other experience had.
There's lots of evidence about information poverty
when we visited university libraries
in most Sub-Saharan countries.
We found that the library had approximately 100 books
and they were 20 years out of date, so that there was --
it was really a very said situation.
And I thought to myself, well, even if I, with the knowledge
of how to get information, failed totally, utterly,
miserably, in this, what chance do the people who live
in these countries have?
They don't.
And so the information poverty simply perpetuates itself
because they're unable to identify well
and solve their problems.
Now that's not the only thing you need to solve problems,
but it's really, really important.
So when I left the UN and went back to university,
academia computing, and met the people
who eventually founded the Internet Society,
I thought here's something we can do, en masse,
to create waves of people who understand this,
who come from these countries, who can go back and install --
connect their countries to the Internet,
install router networks, do resource discovery
and content serving eventually on the Net.
There was a crying need.
It was a volunteer effort.
Some of the people in this room contributed to it.
Randy Bush contributed mightily to the start of it
to help make it a success.
Steve Goldstein and Ida Holz were at the first workshop.
Gihan Dias was at the second.
We decided that we would take the time to create courses
that would allow people to do these things
and we would fund them to the maximum extent we could,
which was almost 100% in most years.
We had a willing ally in Larry Landweber
who was then Vice-President, Vint, who was President,
and so we started with 135 people at Stanford University.
Over the course of eight years we trained about 1500 people
from almost all developing countries
and we started a series in Central and Eastern Europe
which has really outlived ours and still continues
to be an active networking association.
We -- from that workshop came WALC for Latin America
and which trained, I suspect,
many more people in the thousands.
I'm very proud of this accomplishment.
I think that the many volunteers who gave up their vacations
and much of their time to run these workshops
for the Internet Society were really, really in the forefront
of pushing the Internet out so
that truly the Internet can be for everyone.
Mostly I'm very pleased that one of the results of this was
that the Internet Society itself turned its face to the problems
of development, to the problems of training and helping people.
And that trend continues to this day.
Thank you very much.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you very much, George Sadowsky.
So we are running now into the third
and the last category for tonight.
It's the Pioneer Circle, recognizing individuals
who were instrumental in the early design
and development of the Internet.
Significant contributions
to early Internet protocols and architecture.
So this award goes to David Clark.
Our next award winner could not be with us
but there is a video acceptance speech which we would
like to show you right now on the screen.
>> Hello. I'm very sorry that I have to join you by video.
I wish I could be there in person to say how delighted I am
to receive this award.
When I started working on the Internet
in the mid-1970s we certainly did not imagine the future would
look the way it does.
It's been a wonderful adventure with many wonderful friends
and collaborators that have made it happen.
As we single out a few of us it's important
to remember just how much of a team effort this has been.
And, of course, the adventure's not over.
If I can use this moment to make just one point,
the future of the Internet today is not defined by technologists.
It is defined by the rich interplay between technology
and the larger context of economic investment,
regulatory [inaudible], social, cultural,
and political concerns.
It's a challenge for the technical community
to understand these larger factors but they are the laws
that are now driving the future, and that's where we must go
if we hope to have a role shape in the future.
I still believe the future of the Internet can be shaped
by smart people and that's the challenge we should accept.
Again, thanks very much
and I hope you're having a wonderful event.
>> [Background applause].
David Clark.
Well, our next award winner has the same first name.
Instrumental in early Internet development,
created the first operational distributed computer system.
Please welcome to the stage, David Farber.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> I guess I'm supposed to say how historic things happen,
but what I'd like to do is actually paraphrase a comment
that is fairly traditional in mathematics and was first taught
to me by *** Hamming, that I have done good things --
I paraphrase it -- because I stood on the shoulders
of great people that preceded me.
I started in this business by knowing one of the great people
who contributed to the Internet, Paul Barron, who became a close
and valued friend and teacher of how to think,
how to get things done, and how to be honest.
I spent most of my career in the academic world
and there's many, many teachers.
A lot of your work depends on your students.
They're the ones who drive you, they're the ones
who keep you young, they're the ones who inspire you.
And I have had some great students, like John Postel,
Dave Synkowski, a whole bunch of excellent students
that really drove me on, because they would come in
and they'd say, I want to do this.
And you think, they can't make that work,
and they go and do it.
I look forward to more students and more exciting future.
I think the Internet has just started.
I don't think we're anywhere near being developed the way it
will be in the future.
We're going to get faster networks.
We're going to get faster computers.
And we're going to get secure environments.
And there's no way we can avoid it unless government puts its
foot down in the wrong place.
So I think you very much for the honor
and look forward to the future.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> [Background applause] David Farber.
Pioneer Circle, next award winner.
He co-wrote a proposal that won contract
to the design network structure for ARPAnet.
Your applause for Howard Frank.
[ Audience Applause ]
So Howard cannot be with us today
but sent a statement gratefully accepting this honor.
He says that when he first encountered packet switching
technology he thought it was interesting but only
after his first company, the Network Analysis Corporation,
was contracted by ARPA to develop topological designs
for the ARPAnet that he then began
to realize the potential of the technology.
After the contact was expanded to investigate the economics
of packet switching for large nationwide networks he became a
true believer.
Howard said it is a great pleasure
to see what has taken place over the last 20 years.
So, once again, congratulation,
Howard Frank [audience applause].
Influential in bringing the Internet to Thailand,
please welcome to the stage, it's Kanchana Kanchanasut.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you.
I, you know, I was very surprised
to receive this recognition.
However I, you know, once I received the news I became
so happy, not just for myself
but for all my Thai colleagues who, you know, worked together
with me in bringing the Internet to Thailand.
It's not just me.
And I think our experiences may be very similar to Gihan Dias
and to South American case, and so I would like repeat that,
that instead I would like to briefly talk to you
about what I had to go through as a, you know,
playing this pioneering role in a developing country.
The most difficult thing was the, you know,
in order to get involved in this type of activity,
we need to get financed.
We need to get funding and for us it was very difficult
because our government would not understand what we wanted to do.
Their [inaudible] would not let us touch the equipment.
So that was our first task.
And once you welcome that we had to start finding people,
students and our -- we had to try to train our engineers.
And for this I received a lot of help from my friends in SRC
and [inaudible], and I really I want to thank them,
you know, here as well.
Apart from that, after, you know, training all these people,
all the engineers, and getting ready for the network expansion,
we had to come across a lot of problems with policy makers
and government, you know.
In order to -- we need to always try to strive for balance,
whether modest stakeholder, model is going too far
or the other way around.
So we are a kind of people in the middle that try
to balance these two power
and this their commission may help me and my team
to do a better job in this role.
Thank you.
>> [Background applause].
Pioneer Circle Award Winner, Kanchana Kanchanasut.
Once again, awarded posthumous, championed division
of a worldwide computer network.
So his son -- Tracy's accepting the award.
The award goes to J.C.R. Licklider.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you.
I'm very happy to be here on behalf
of my dad to accept this honor.
He would be very happy that there was an Internet Society,
someone shepherding -- although that's probably too strong a
word -- the evolution of the Internet
which is probably more unmanageable or predictable
than shepherding cats.
And I think he would be bemused
that there was an Internet Hall of Fame.
I'm pretty sure he didn't think of that
in his pioneering thoughts, although he would say to you
that you were all wrong and that he never should have been chosen
to receive this award.
He was a fairly humble guy and would sit here --
and it's been a recurring theme.
He would begin naming the names of all the people
who really did the work and he would sort
of just say, "I was there."
And he would list a lot of people.
I've been, like his life, I've been to some award ceremonies
in which he received award, and it was kind of boring
because he sort of disappointed the audience
and just listed lots of people.
And it's perhaps because his time
in government taught him something that he didn't --
I don't think start out knowing being an engineer or scientist.
But he kind of got the idea about being politically
and socially correct
and congratulating everybody else but himself.
My dad was, I guess you would say, an out-of-the-box thinker.
In fact, there's some people who thought he never was
in the box [audience laughter].
And as -- I think a lot of what he did was serendipitous.
He want to Bolt, Beranek,
and Newman after starting the Experimental Psychology Program
at MIT as a person who was known
for his experimental psychological work
in hearing audition and hearing and human factors.
And he worked on things like what kinds of signals that --
his office had gongs, noisemakers, all kinds of things
that would make sounds in the spirit of figuring
out what's good to tell a pilot that the plane's on fire,
something that would penetrate and be successful
in letting people know what was going on.
In the process -- and this is the time
when BBN was an acoustics company.
They designed for a world Philharmonic Hall in --
and, and New York facility, and he was lucky to be there
when they first got computers, and this utterly transformed him
from being a psychologist.
He became infatuated.
At that time you were fundamentally working
with a personal computer and it was a [inaudible] and I remember
as a kid going in there, particularly on Saturdays.
I had a job of rolling up the punched paper tape,
putting a rubber band on it, and putting it back on the pegboard.
I was paid five cents a day and it was nice
that the BBN vending machine dispensed candy bars
for exactly one nickel [audience laughter].
But he really was transformed by this experience
of being one-on-one with the computer and had the idea
of the potential of human augmentation
by having a symbiotic relationship with the computer.
And that evolved to a very strong belief
in what you would call the intergalactic network
which would take the knowledge of humankind and make it freely
and openly accessible to everyone in the world,
a somewhat idealistic and optimistic position, perhaps;
but one that gained tremendous momentum.
And, again, as luck would have it,
for some reason somebody thought he should come
to the Information Processing Techniques Office at ARPA.
And this was giving money to an out-of-the-box person
who became, not only a proselytizer for this vision,
but a guy who hadn't had cash.
And he was somewhat of a talent spotter
and he would find some smart, you know,
group in the university [inaudible] [ringing sound].
>> Microphone.
>> Oh, sorry.
Excuse me, sorry.
>> [Inaudible].
>> I get carried away here.
But he had money to give people, all kinds of strange people,
all kinds of people who seemed to share his vision.
And I think that's where -- that was the luck of it all.
Liked to do -- appointed somebody else to HIPTO
and not have the same result.
Maybe a better one, maybe a different one,
but it's hard to see that.
But because he was in this fund, he was an evangelist.
He was a funder.
He would stand up here and say, "No, I didn't do it, you know.
All these people that were brilliant and did it
and let me tell you all their names."
And then you'd get bored.
But he was very happy about how the Internet evolved
to a point -- but he didn't live long enough
to see the World Wide Web and to see the dark forces
of venture capital and, you know, the entertainment industry
that attempt -- all kinds of actors becoming dominant players
in the evolution of the Internet, more so at the time,
any way, in this period, than technology in some cases.
I think at this point he would be concerned about the attacks
on the fundamental notion of taking humankind's knowledge
and making it available to everyone,
and he would be disturbed
by nation state interdiction of their Internet.
He would be dismayed by government surveillance,
all of -- and the partitioning, the commercialization
of partitioning that made it -- that impeded this free flow.
And I guess it's up to the succeeding generation of people,
the Internet Society and its followers, to make sure
that we have a good outcome.
But, in any case, enough said.
I really appreciate it very much that you've bestowed this award
on him, and thank you very much [audience applause].
>> [Audience applause] Your award for J.C.R. Licklider.
Our next award winner, he led the invention, standardization,
and commercialization of the Ethernet.
It's Bob Metcalfe.
[ Audience Applause ]
So, unfortunately, Bob could not be with us today,
but sent his thanks and felt he had much good fortune along
the way.
He said he was lucky to be swept up by the Internet movement
in 1970 at the MIT and Harvard and got
to build an Ethernet IMP interface
and wrote early packet protocol software working
with many Internet visionaries.
He said he was even luckier to be the first person in history
to be given the problem of how to network a building full
of people -- full of personal computers.
At Parc they came up with the Ethernet building
on the ARPAnet packet switching and [inaudible] multi access.
They extended the Internet
into buildings going past their timesharing minicomputers right
to desktop PCs.
Bob reminds us, build it and they will come --
new, unanticipated applications
of bandwidth bringing the world ever more freedom
and prosperity.
Congratulation, Bob Metcalfe.
[ Audience Applause ]
So let's continue.
Developed the first inter-university network
in Japan and considered father of the Internet in Japan,
please welcome Jun Murai.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Yeah, like many people in this room my background is
from UNIX Operating System.
During the student's time I've been working
with UNIX Operating System for one of the first approaches
in a Japanese university and the computer scientist.
I was reading all the source code of UNIX Operating System
which was written in a language called C,
and I found out the name, CHAR, in there.
And what does CHAR means?
And I immediately visiting the [inaudible] and meet
with Vince Richard, and why do you call this CHAR?
And then he said because it's for the character.
And which character do you mean?
And then, you know, our version
of the character needs 16 bytes instead of 8-byte.
And that, that's what -- we started a discussion
and then the computer science was very much a U.S.
or in the [inaudible].
So we had a long debate.
So the same things we did with Bill Joy when he did, you know,
the VI which is basically a, you know,
treating the [inaudible] tricky,
so he thought they could seven byte.
I mean, character was a seven byte, but we need,
we need 16 bytes for Japanese character sets, so then,
you know, I read the RSC 822,
and it said exclusive feed [inaudible] email contents has
to be written in a ASCII character, okay.
Then I, you know, so I felt the email would be extended
by only by English.
But the [inaudible] it's really not.
When I started the University Network in -- oh, by the way.
My name, Japan University Network.
So, easy to remember [audience laughter].
And so when I started the network in Japan in the '80s,
then I found out that the --
I thought that computer scientists can read English
and to speak in English because they are reading all the papers
and the manuals and etcetera.
But actually they couldn't.
Therefore, the -- you know, it's really important
to introduce the languages onto a computer environment
and as well as the Internet space and the messages.
So my first lecture I remember, and the idea was about that
and how we did, you know,
kind of local language accommodation
on the email space.
So the global space of the Internet has been established
by the many people's efforts, that it's also important
to respect the culture of each of the regions.
So with -- that's one of the things I was thinking,
so I really appreciate the awards the word
and especially the World Wide Web space
and respecting those languages and the cultures
on the Internet space.
So that's a good thing.
And the second thing is, I know, being academic
and staying in a university.
That was a very important thing that as, you know, getting back
to the Berkeley standard software distribution things has
been done at the Berkeley and that then they --
the first [inaudible] school liberties, CPIP, was distributed
around the world from the Berkeley University.
So, you know, that was very much impressed me and,
you know, as working with them.
Therefore, then after the -- when we have decided a type here
for the IP next generation things which is, you know,
eventually being at the Version 6, and then they --
there was no computer science research group at Berkeley
at that time, and then I was wondering who's going
to be doing the reference call for IP Version 6,
and then we've been working very hard
and I was encouraging all my [inaudible] project engineers
to write the difference code to them.
So working with the [inaudible] people, Naval research U.S.,
and then they jointly created the common protocol stack on VSD
for the active Version 6.
I hope, you know, that was a very strong, you know,
emotion that, you know, we have received
from all the contribution from the UC Berkeley
for the first TCPIP source code around the world.
So I really want to kind of do the similar things from Japan.
So that was, you know, a role of the University is still going
on in the -- then they -- a lot of difficulties,
new researches, new wisdom.
We really need the Internet and the wisdom from the University
and the academic network's going
to be really very important basics
for the future of the Internet.
And lastly, I'd like to mention about the ISOP.
I remember the fast ISOP INET was
in the [inaudible] here in Europe in '91.
And I was there and then, you know, we have discussed
about the -- we really need the, you know,
like the [inaudible] speech and the then they --
a lot of difficulties on kind
of newly creating the computer network things a country.
So we have difficulties in Japan, you know.
It's not very well understood by government,
telephone companies, and etcetera.
So we had a very hard time and each of us having a hard time
and then I remember I was talking to, you know,
the [inaudible] that we really [inaudible] to, you know,
record all those expenses and to be shared
for the future to the entire world.
And then they know.
I remember they came back and here's, I saw Internet Society,
so how do you like it?
I remember explicitly that was in '91 in the [inaudible].
I was proposing the first ISO [inaudible] to be hosted
by us in Japan in Kobe.
So that was the first ISO [inaudible] in Kobe in '92.
So I think, you know, that was start
of the Internet Society activities all over the world.
I'm proud of hosting the very first Internet Society's INET
in Japan, and so looking at the histories then I know
after that I thought has a tremendous amount of the work
to -- for the global Internet deployment in the [inaudible]
so it's -- well, okay, it's still going on
but I sincerely appreciate and respect the work
of the Internet Society.
So, finally, I thank Professor Ishida who hired me
to [inaudible] you know, protecting me
because I'm a very nasty person [audience laughter] and --
but with the Professor Ishida as a protection of me
and the encouragement I couldn't make the job.
And although like project our engineers
and the researchers who's been following me
and working things done.
Thank you very much [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Pioneer Circle Award
Winner, Jun Murai.
Mr. Jun Murai, your portfolio.
So instrumental in the development of the Internet
in the Netherlands, our next guest must come up to the stage.
Please welcome Kees Neggers.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> I would like to start by thanking the Internet Society
for this great honor to be inducted
in the Internet Hall of Fame.
But like many others already said today, I would also
like to thank all the others who supported me working
in the development of the Internet.
I'm very grateful to have the privilege to work
with so many talented and nice people all over the world and,
of course, there are too many to list here,
and I don't know to start to do that.
But I would like to mention two specifically here.
One is Barla [assumed spelling] Nellkor [assumed spelling]
who was the co-founder and my co-managing director of SURFnet
in the Netherlands, the National Research and Education Network.
That actually was the basis of all my Internet activities.
And the other one is my wife.
It's been said global networking needs global collaboration
and a lot of collaboration.
And they both allowed me to travel anywhere anytime
when there was a need for that.
And without their support I'm sure I would not be able
to stand here now.
So if that's what he thinks and this is still a little bit time
to reflect on the Internet itself.
It's, of course, obvious that the Internet is a huge success
and it's impossible to imagine a world without it anymore.
At the same time I think the current Internet is not
future-proof anymore.
It's amazing how far we have come with the Internet today.
It's an architecture that was never designed
to do the job it is asked today, and if we want
to secure the Internet for the future of mankind,
that several people already said as well, I'm pretty sure
that we have to look at the new architecture,
the real news slate, and, of course, to do that in a way
that is compatible with the existing one.
I'm not a researcher.
I'm not a computer scientist, but I'm pretty sure
that we do have the know-how
and we do have the technology to make that happen.
Of course you will face a lot of vested interest if you start
to do that, but I think we need to assemble the courage
and the partners around the globe to make that an effort
and secure the Internet for the future.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> [Background applause] Pioneer Circle Winner,
Kees Neggers from the Netherlands.
And now let's travel from the Netherlands to Africa.
Pioneered Internet development expansion throughout Africa,
please welcome to the stage, it's Nii Quaynor.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Thank you very much.
I'm just brief with honor, you know,
to be part of this distinguished group.
But I'd like to tell you a story.
I could not get a visa to come here
because the date they were give me
for interview was like a month away.
Satisfying the Government of Ghana decided to elevate me
and make me a diplomat, so they give me a [inaudible]
[audience laughter].
[ Audience Applause ]
So with that I finally could [inaudible] delegation insides
here [audience laughter] and also my AAU friends are here
from AFRAN and I thank them very much for this level of support.
I know this honor is not for me alone, but also for the billions
who still do not have the benefit of the Internet.
But I accept it and thank everyone
on their behalf as well.
Enabling people from their developing countries
to have a chance to benefit from the Internet
and contain the distant divide is still very, very [inaudible].
The sacrifice has been great but the rewards and benefits
for generations of people in developing world
who would otherwise have missed the opportunity have
been limitless.
I'm really excited about how actions
in technology can triumph monumental policy
and regulatory barriers and cause changes of the scale
as was in Africa in the '80s and '90s.
Governments would do well to reform communications policy,
regimes more favorable to the Internet,
and African governments in particular would benefit
from investing in basic sciences and engineering education, and,
of course, using the Internet
for increased committee participation
in policy development and also in developing planning.
I have been blessed to have funded important communities
and [inaudible] in the African Internet eco-system.
This has been a wonderful experience in the formation
of self-organized technical communities in Africa,
and it has changed me.
I look forward to seeing how today's Internet champions will
change the world.
I thank you all very much [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Thank you very much.
Diplomats Nii Quaynor.
Let's come along with our next award winner
in the category Pioneer Circle.
Set up the first Internet exchange point.
Please welcome to the stage, Glenn Ricart.
[ Audience Applause]
>> Thank you very much.
I'm very honored by the award.
I want you to know that half of it is being
in the right place at the right time.
Let me tell you the story.
The time is 1986.
I'm at the University of Maryland College Park.
There is a small but growing number of TCP/IP networks,
mostly single-purpose, mostly unconnected.
The example we have of how
to connect two TCP/IP networks is a gateway, a computer,
sitting between the APARNET and the MILNET.
And the discussion is,
how should these networks be connected to each other
and have the right rules?
How can we make sure that all the right packets stay
on the right networks and don't get on the wrong networks?
It's a very complex situation.
And we're not getting very far.
So began to think about an important feature
of the Internet.
Sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness
than permission [audience laughter].
So a group of us figured this out.
I was in a fortunate situation at the University
of Maryland College Park to be near a number
of the Federal Networks.
And we'd also started the first of the NSF Regional Networks,
the first operating network, SURAnet, was connected there
at College Park and I had the first campus that was TCP/IP.
So that might be a great place
to invite everyone else to connect.
So here's the plan.
The plan is invite everyone to connect to College Park.
From their point of view, simple.
Nice, simple connection to College Park.
Thanks to TCP/IP, that wonderful protocol,
they'll be connected to each other.
No gateway.
That was a significant breakthrough
and we ended up doing that.
A number of the Federal agencies were among the first
to go do that, and that point in College Park became known
as the FIX, the Federal Internet Exchange.
But we invited anyone and everyone who wanted to connect
to that exchange point to do so.
So we also had Rick Adams from UUNET.
We also had Bill Schroeder from PSINET.
We had international connections to South America, to Europe.
Lots of other folks also connected to College Park
and we welcomed everyone who wished to do so.
Milo Medin started a second fix on the West Coast
so we didn't have a single point of failure for the Internet.
This is important.
Don't have a single point of failure.
So he established a second fix at NASA Ames.
And from there, the future just was open.
It turned out that there was a commercial Internet exchange
that followed on after that.
But the first Internet exchange without a gateway
in the middle appears to have been in College Park beginning
in about 1986, and I was fortunate enough to be
at the right place at the right time.
I'd like to thank a number of the folks
who helped make that possible.
Walt Gilbert, Mike Petri, Louie Mamakos, Jack Hahn,
Jack Waters -- all of those folks and many more were key
to making that happen and I want to thank them
and thank the Internet Society for this honor.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> Glenn Ricart, ladies and gentlemen,
Pioneer Circle Award Winner.
So let's come along with our next award winner
in this category.
Here is the information.
Leader in the development of modern computing technology
and computer networks.
Your applause for Robert Taylor.
[ Audience Applause ]
So, as you can see, Robert Taylor could not join us
but he expresses appreciation for this award.
He wanted to add that in computer research significant
achievements are accomplished by teams of people, not just one.
And he referenced the many collaborative experience he had
over the years.
So, for example, the ALTA System at the Computer Science Lab
at Xerox Park which enabled the first Internet
in 1976 was designed and built from the contributions of more
than two dozen researchers.
He credits many of the fellow researchers throughout his
career as contributors and encourage a new awards tradition
to recognize extraordinary group accomplishments.
In addition to Parks Computer Science Lab
and DEC Systems Research Center, he offered a few more examples
from the past: the Disney's Animation Group,
Lockheed's Skunk Works, and the Manhattan Projects as others.
He closed with a Japanese proverb: None of us are
as smart as all of us.
Congratulation, Robert Taylor.
[ Audience Applause ]
So we have two more awards to hand over.
Developed first open computer network in the U.S.
to support research in higher education.
Please welcome Stephen Wolff.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> A good many years ago I was employed in a research lab
as an engineer, and I had a colleague
who was a plasma physicist, and we worked
on the same projects together.
At one point in contravention
with a great many regulations we managed, together,
to buy a computer out of project funds.
And after a good bit of time we put UNIX on it and got
that to work, and we discovered UACP.
A little bit later we discovered the ARPAnet
and we could both instantly see the boon
that networking would have for scientific research,
the ability to do asynchronous collaboration by email,
to share files, to share computer resources.
And we talked about that a lot.
But my colleague had a different idea.
He thought that everybody should have access to the network.
He saw it as a way to distribute knowledge,
as a way to encourage literacy and distribute information
as a way to elevate the human spirit.
And we talked about that a lot, too.
But he did more than that.
He believed in that vision.
He resigned his post, cashed in his retirement, borrowed money
from friends and family, and set up an Internet business.
The business was designed to relieve the populace
of the tedium of grocery shopping.
The idea was either by Telnet
or FTP you would get him a shopping list and he would go
out and buy the groceries and have them delivered
to your front door Of course, Internet penetration
in those days was
in a sub-percent level [audience laughter],
and what there was was 300 Baud dialup.
Unsurprisingly the business faltered and failed.
My friend at this point, deeply in debt, dispirited
but not disillusioned, and in poverty,
tried to reenter the workforce without great success.
And a few years later he died.
I am deeply honored by this award.
I wish to dedicate my membership to my colleague
and visionary friend, Doctor Bruce Henriksen
of the U.S. Army [inaudible] Research Lab,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
Thank you very much [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Thank you very much
to Stephen Wolff, Pioneer Circle Award Winner.
Thank you very much.
Of course, last but not least, led the team
that created the infrastructure
to connect Germany to the Internet.
Please welcome Werner Zorn.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> One can hardly imagine the feeling I had
when the email came in the end of April, Internet Hall
of Fame, congratulations.
And reaching somebody who is five years retired,
nearly forgotten, with project works 30 years ago.
In the profile I read direct that I was entitled partisan.
And I really admit I became partisan when shortly
after the first email came in exactly on the today's date,
August 3, 1984, because of fact that our project,
the prolongation of our project was denied
because universities were looked at to be not the right place
to deliver network services or provide network services.
But in reality I think they foresee
that I would very soon organize an opposition
against the strict [inaudible] policy.
Well, actually happened.
So from a partisan 30 years ago to an inductee
in the Internet Hall of Fame.
What a change.
For me it is a fairy tale quite similar to that
of the ugly duckling, perhaps you know [audience laughter].
And from the ugly duckling we can learn if you in such --
if you are in a such miserable situation what to do.
And, but it's a little ugly duckling.
It went into the world and looked
for birds of the same feather.
And I found my first [inaudible]
in Larry's Luntfavor's [assumed spelling] workshop as a few
of you as well, and later in the Internet Society.
Without their help I would not stand here.
So it was, for example, Faye Farber's software we used.
It was Stephen Wolff who gave the okay to our China connection
and it was Steven Goldstein to a great --
gave okay to the connection to the NSFNET.
So I want to thank you all and including my former staff
who might watch this ceremony today or even later.
Thank you [audience applause].
>> [Background audience applause] Thank you very much
to Werner Zorn, our last inductee.
And I would like to invite you
to give me once again a warm applause to all our inductees
in all the three [background audience applause] categories
for tonight.
Thank you very much to this.
So we are very close to finish this beautiful award
ceremony evening.
But before that happens I'll now ask Lynn St. Amour back
on the stage to share several important announcements.
Lynn [background sounds].
>> Thank you.
Those were just wonderful, inspiring, emotional.
It's a great look back at history and also a look forward
to a lot of challenges.
If anybody's up to these challenges, though,
this room and our networks are.
And, you know, in the Internet Society we always say
that we have to keep looking forward.
We need to rely on communities.
The Internet, as Susan said earlier tonight as well,
its future is not sure, frankly.
Some times in the past few months its futures looked quite
dark, frankly.
So we need everybody's help and effort and enthusiasm,
and obviously with the common theme running
through these speeches about collaboration and community
and recognizing contributions of others, the humbleness --
it's just, you know, frankly, very emotional.
So the Internet was built on ideals and principles,
and values, and it's so obvious
that those are still present today in so many
of the people here and everyone here I would guess.
And I just want to recognize
that this is a really important piece of recognition
for the history, not only those that get recognition every day
but for a lot of those people
that don't get the same level of recognition.
This is only possible through your contributions,
through your suggestions, through your nominations.
We really want everybody to think about it,
to reach out to your networks.
The nominations period will be opening up again in October
for next year's ceremony, so we really hope
that we get an even better and a bumper crop
of candidates for next year.
It also falls to me to announce the plans
for our future ceremonies.
We have agreed a rotational schedule, a global schedule.
Next year we'll be meeting in Asia Pacific.
The year after that in 2015 we'll be in Latin America; 2016,
Africa; and in North America in 2017.
The exact dates and locations will be published in due time.
You can certainly check those on the Internet Society website
and the Internet Hall of Fame website.
And maybe just in closing, it's impossible
to recount fully the contributions of the people
that we've actually recognized here today.
They certainly weren't captured in, you know,
Twitter level captions here on the screen.
So please go and visit the Hall of Fame website.
You'll find videos; you'll find photo files;
you'll find contributions.
It really is important that we just carry on kind
of the appreciation of the individuals,
and that we pay attention to the values that people brought
to the development of the Internet and that, you know,
is so very, very present here today.
With that I think I'm just meant to turn it back over
and just ask everybody again
to give the 2013 inductees a big round of applause.
[ Audience Applause ]
>> Lynn St. Amour.
So, thank you very much.
This concludes our Internet Hall of Fame ceremony for 2013.
As you heard it, we -- you're going to see each other again
in 2014 when the ceremony will be held in Asia Pacific.
So my name is Amius, and I would
like to say goodbye now in German.
[ Speaking in Foreign Language ]
I think you didn't understand anything [audience laughter].
Okay, thank you very much.
So, once again, and please make sure
that we have now a photo opportunity.
So I would like to invite all you inductees please
on the stage for a last photo memory of this 2013.
Please come up to the stage now.
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