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Session Chair: Shegeki Goto (Waseda
Univ., Japan)
Presentation Titles and Speakers:
1. Korea (download
presentation)
Kilnam Chon (Kaist, Korea)
2. Japan (download
presentation)
Kazunori Konishi (KDDI Lab, Japan)
3. Thailand (download
presentation)
Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand)
4. Singapore (download
presentation)
Lawrence Wong (NUS, Singapore)
Description: This session invites notable speakers
in Asia.They will talk about the development of the Internet in
this region, which took different
approach than in the US. Let us listen to our leaders giving
their
talks about the history of the Internet from various
perspectives. It
is also meaningful to hear about the lessons learned.
Presentation Abstract:
1. Korea
Abstract:
The Internet development and deployment in Asia including Korea,
starting from 1980 will be reviewed focusing on several major
milestones on research and education networks. Current effort
on archiving the Internet history with development of virtual
museum would be introduced with proposal on collaboration in
Asia and the world.
2, Japan
Abstract: Internet histories have
been compiled by the Internet Society (ISOC):
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/. But most of the
histories were written by US folks, and the Internet
achievements in the United States are well described. The
history focusing on the Internet activities in Japan will be
presented, and the kickoff of editing Internet history in Asia
will be discussed.
3. Thailand
Abstract:
The Thai Internet also grew out from the UNIX based educational
community in the late 80's. While the majority of the people
were using
PC and DOS, a few UNIX machines in Thailand located in Songkhla,
Pathumthani and Bangkok were busy talking to one another with
the
Australian ACSnet (UUCP-like). In late 1987, as soon as AIT
received
its first SUN workstation, purchased by a Japanese grant, it was
immediately set up to connect to UUNET and munnari.oz by UUCP.
.th TLD
was registered and AIT's IP addresses applied for in 1988. Soon
after
that, the Thai CS network was set up using ACSnet software
donated by
the Australian government linking three active institutions: AIT,
Prince
of Songkhla University and Chulalongkorn University. All key
players of
the Thai Internet had its first meeting at AIT in December 1991
to agree
to cooperate for the development of the Internet. The first
international IP connection came alive in 1992 between
Chulalongkorn
University and UUNET while Thai commercial Internet started its
operation in 1994.
4. Singapore
Abstract: Singapore first plugged into the global community
through its BITNET connectivity initiated by the National
University of Singapore (NUS) in 1987. The need for production
internet facilities evolved through exploratory facilities at
NUS with the establishment of TECHNET in 1990.Soon
commercialization of production Internet services became a
reality
in 1995. Furthermore, liberalization of the telecommunication
industry brought new Internet Service Providers (ISPs) into the
Singapore arena. At the same time there was a domestic drive to
establish a national broadband infrastructure with the launch of
Singapore-ONE in April 1997. Later that year, Singapore also
became the second country in Asia after Japan to be linked to
the global Internet2 infrastructure via the launch of the
Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN).
Arising from these developments new applications and services
were made possible, particularly benefiting the research and
education community. Recent initiatives such as Grid computing
and cost sensitivities are
driving next generation R&E network evolution.
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