1. Internet2: The History Greg Wood Director of Communications

2. Internet2: A Ridiculously Oversimplified History Greg Wood Director of Communications

3. What to Expect Some insight into: What Internet2 is When Internet2 began Who started this whole thing Why there’s Internet2 in the first place How Internet2 got started A good story …but not necessarily the truth

4. A Ridiculously Oversimplified History of the Internet Source: Nua Internet Surveys ~1991-1992 The Web ~1970 ARPAnet 1987 NSFnet 1996 Internet2 1995 Privatization Number of Internet Users

5. The End of the Internet, Part I Commercialization led to a focus on: Meeting explosion in demand Reliable service Short-term (3-6 month) business objectives Developing the Internet required: Experimental environment New underlying technologies Long-term (3-6 year) view

6. A Ridiculously Oversimplified History of the Internet2 1995 – Monterey Futures Group 1996 – Cheyenne Mountain –1996 Oct 1., 1996 – Internet2 Announced January 1997 – First Internet2 Member Meeting Sept. 1997 – UCAID Formed/First “Internet2 Demonstrations” April 14 1998 – Abilene Network Announced

7. Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization NSFNET Internet2, Abilene, vBNS Advanced US Govt Networks ARPAnet gigabit testbeds Active Nets wireless WDM SprintLink InternetMCI US Govt Networks ANS Interoperable High Performance Research &Education Networks 21st Century Networking Quality of Service (QoS)

8. Internet2 Project Goals Enable new generation of applications Re-create leading edge R&E network capability Transfer capability to the global production Internet

9. Why University Leadership? The Internet came from the academic community Stanford -- the Internet protocols NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet CERN -- the WWW protocols University of Illinois -- the Web browser Universities’ research and education mission require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop it

10. Internet2 Membership University membership 134 members by 1997 ~190 members today Corporate membership First member (Cisco) in April 1997 ~70 members today Affiliate membership International Relationships

11. Internet2 A self-help community Brings together communities to accomplish things together Could change the world (again)