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 @SK53 Piets mini auto-biography is probably the least dry treatment on the topic https://godfatherof.nl/ specifically https://godfatherof.nl/WPA.html on the COSINE/Eureka angle. http://ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf goes in to a lot more details though. 3 comments
 @simon I'd forgotten about EUREKA, but was only very tangentially involved via the Home Automation project. I was v much ESPRIT. At a mundane project level we hooked directly to UCL, but domain name admin was done, badly, by Uni. Kent. A friend & colleague moved to IBM Networking Centre in Heidelberg early '90s. Always understood his role was to disrupt standardisation (which I knew very well IBM & DEC were doing with FORTRAN-8X). Interested no mention of RACE. 1/2 @simon My brother was much more on the networking scene, initially writing X.25 software at MDIS, and then ATM firmware for Netcomm (sold to General Data Corp) a key supplier to Janet-2. He left them in '95, but then spent about 10 years contracting with just about every player in ATM. But he had no awareness of EC politics. British DTI specialised in being utterly inept in them. I had far more support from the Irish ministry, and lots of hassle 'cos of 🇩🇰 & 🇪🇸 firms and their national reps. 2/2 |
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@SK53 in the end it did have the consequence of wiping out large bits of the European telecoms hardware industry outside of those working on mobile stuff.