What comes out of this is not only how vital the NSFnet was to the acceleration of Internet establishment, but how vital two people - Al Gore and Dennis Jennings - were to the whole process, Al Gore in securing funding and regulatory easement, and Dennis Jennings in his insistence that no node would receive that funding unless they implemented TCP IP. And then Gore further facilitated the transition to the commercial Internet we know today. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Monday December 28 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the third installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature two celebrations of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET). From 1985-199" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-3>Today, *Monday December 28 2020*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the third installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live/>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ 2020 highlights, we feature two celebrations of the *National Science Foundation Network <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network>* (NSFNET). From 1985-1995 the NSFnet was a pivotal United States program that laid the foundation of the global Internet. was a pivotal United States program that laid the foundation of the global Internet. First we have excerpts *35th Anniversary Celebratory Event <https://isoc.live/13170/>* on December 8 which marked its founding. Earlier in the year, on April 30 '*Internet Independence Day <https://isoc.live/12014/>*', a panel marked its demise, which was the moment that the Internet fully transitioned from a government to a private enterprise. *SPEAKERS* *NSFNET 35th Anniversary Celebratory Event * *Vint Cerf*, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google *Al Gore*, former Vice President, USA *Dennis Jennings*, former First Program Director for Networking, NSF *Howard Pfeffer*, President and CEO, Internet2 *Andrew Sullivan*, President and CEO, Internet Society *Margaret Martonosi*, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), NSF *MODERATOR:* *Ana Hunsinger*, Vice President, Community Engagement, Internet2 *Internet Independence Day* *Reed Hundt* (former FCC Chairman) *Esther Dyson* (first CEO of ICANN) *James Lewis* (SVP CSIS) *Tom Evslin* (founder ITXC) *Andrew Odlyzko* (former Bell Labs and Prof U MN) *Gary Shapiro*, President, Consumer Technology Association *MODERATOR:* *Daniel Berninger*, VCXC *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-3 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-3>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #NSFNET <https://bit.ly/3oybLNL> * @Internet2 @internetsociety @vgcerf @algore Dennis Jennings @NSF Howard Pfeffer @SullivanISOC @margmartonosi #internetindependence <https://twitter.com/hashtag/internetindependence?f=realtime&src=hash> #iid25 @edyson @james_a_lewis @rehundt @GaryShapiro @tevslin Andrew Odlyzko *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-3 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-3>* Comment <https://isoc.live/13276/#respond> See all comments <https://isoc.live/13276/#comments> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13276/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -