Europe has a story to tell
In Europe, experimentally driven research for defining the Internet's infrastructure began more than 40 years ago. Yet few people realise that the original voices from these early days of European Internetworking are still around. Here are the experts who boast long experience and who have a story to tell, one which could benefit not only today’s research community, but also influence decision makers and help the industry and users to understand where the true wealth of networking can be found.
The Project NetAffair
NetAffair aims to make use of the rich tapestry of European knowledge that shaped the Internet’s evolutionary development; to go back to the fundamentals in order to keep pace with the present and to construct new paths into the future. The “clean slate” approach advocated by much of the global research effort signifies a déjà vu for European’s research community. Europe has already been there. History would claim that she has not been particularly successful thus far in re-shaping the international networking paradigms, nor in acting as a united body, as a united Europe.
