IIASA and IIASANET

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History and politics of the formation of IIASA and teh effort for East-West connectivity 1966-1979

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Across an Ideological Divide: IIASA and IIASANET Jay Hauben hauben@columbia.edu URL for the paper http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/jh-paper.doc XXII ICHS Beijing 2005 Symposium SC9 July 26, 2005

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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis abbreviated I I A S A pronounced y?sa 1972 to present Laxenburg Austria

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Lyndon Johnson and McGeorge Bundy

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Jermen Gvishiani Deputy Minister of the Soviet State Committee on Science and Technology

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Signing of the IISASA Charter, October 4, 1972 (Source, IIASA website)

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Bulgaria Italy Canada Japan Czechoslovakia Poland Federal Republic of Germany UK France US German Democratic Republic USSR On October 4, 1972, the representatives of science academies and similar organiza-tions from 3 continents and 12 countries signed the IIASA Charter

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European Informatics Network EIN November 23, 1971 Agreement to establish a European Informatics Network was signed between France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland United Kingdom, Yugoslavia and Euratom (Netherlands joined in mid 1974)

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Proceedings of a IIASA Conference on Computer Communications Networks Oct 21-25, 1974 Network Maps shown SINTO in Poland KUIPNET in Kyoto University in Japan TYMNET commercial network in the US SITA international airline reservations network LIBRIS interlibrary network in Sweden. etc Advanced Packet Switching Networks CYCLADES in France NPL in UK ARPANET in US

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Pouzin, L. “A Proposal for Interconnecting Packet Switching Networks” Proc. EUROCOMP 74, Brunel University, 1023-36, May 1974 Cerf, V. G. and Kahn, R. E., “A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication” IEEE Trans Communications, COM-22, 5, 637-48, May 1974

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Alexander Butrimenko IIASA Computer Science Peoject Leader 1974-80

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UCL Node linked to NORSAR and the ARPANET (Source, IIASA, 1975, p. 54)

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A Proposed IIASANET Configuration, September 1975 (Source, IIASA, 1975, p.142)

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One version of the planned European Informatics Network (Source “Cost 11 Project”) EIN

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Plan of IIASANET April 1976 (Source: IIASA Conference 1976, Vol. 2 p. 210) IIASANET

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The General Scheme of IIASANET, June, 1979 (Source, Butrimenko, 1979)

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Internet Connectivity 1997

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“Effort at developing the Internet protocols was international from the beginning.” Vinton Cerf (as told to Bernard Aboda) "How the Internet Came to Be" The Online User's Encyclopedia, Bernard Aboba, Addison-Wesley, November 1993 (page 530)

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Across an Ideological Divide: IIASA and IIASANET Jay Hauben hauben@columbia.edu URL for the paper http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/jh-paper.doc XXII ICHS Beijing 2005 Symposium SC9 July 26, 2005