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UniForum '95 o Bill Holt: MOSES Leader Writes Dictionary o Affiliate News o The Second International World-Wide Web(WWW) Conference o OSF To Host Symposiums o UniNews Recruitment and Positions Wanted o OS Industry Hiring Professionals Know The Source is UniNews **Ad** o Senior Software Engineer Wanted **Ad** o For Cool Summer Nights... o UniForum Member Benefits ------------------------------------------------------------ Internet and Commerce May Not Mix ---------------------------------- Lots of issues yet to be resolved, panel tells SCO Forum Attendees Will the Internet become the information superhighway? Or will it be an umbrella over a commercial superhighway? Or will it be something totally separate? What has to happen to make the Internet commercially viable? According to a panel of industry executives and observers at SCO Forum94, held in Santa Cruz, CA, last month, no one has definitive answers to those questions yet. But opinions abound. The panel agreed that commercial interests will find a networking infrastructure to meet their needs. But the Internet will have to change to accommodate large-scale commercial activity-and it may not want to change. "There will be an information superhighway," said George Favaloro, director of technical planning for Compaq Computer. "There are a lot of interests that line up and make it very important for the country to have an infrastructure like that." It's not clear what the Internet's role will be, he said. The Internet has both strengths and weaknesses, and the strengths can be exploited, said John Paul, senior vice president of products at Banyan Systems. "We need to use the hype surrounding the information superhighway to get new users exploring the Internet," Paul said. "When they get their new PC and take it home, after a day or two they say 'Is this it?' Get those people on the Internet and communicating with us. I think you will find ways to sell them things." Selling things is based on the value of the application or the tool, said Kc Branscomb, senior vice president of corporate development at Lotus. Therefore-for software developers, at least-it's not so important what the infrastructure turns out to be as whether their application meets the customer's needs. "The medium isn't the message," Branscomb said. "The message is what's important. Try to build an application that is specific and unique to the information-gathering needs of the customers. There will be multiple backbones. The key is to get the application right." Branscomb called "this superhighway thing" a misnomer. "The whole evolution to a large-scale, extended enterprise or public network is an organic process," she said. "It's much more like the food industry or even entertainment than like transportation. By focusing on an information highway, we have somehow gotten off track and lost where we should be investing." Favaloro declared that for the Internet to become a commercial backbone, it may have to evolve into something different from what it is now. "What the Internet is might not be at all what the information superhighway is. The Internet right now is a great big information repository and question-answering service," he said. That's an important service but there's a lot of economic and political power behind the creation of a more robust information infrastructure. "It may be that the Internet evolves into something that can accommodate the commercial interests," he said. "It might also mean that they diverge. It's too early to be able to address that question." Now, the Internet is simply a forerunner, he said. What factors keep the Internet from being commercially useful? Favaloro listed several: o "It's an extremely insular culture. It's very inhospitable to the uninitiated. You have to have a large amount of knowledge about how you go about doing things. It's very means-focused and not necessarily ends-focused. Things don't execute themselves to the extent that they need to. If you're a naive user, you have a very hard time getting the end product you want unless it's just downloading a file. Also, there's a long history of the proper use guidelines and those collide directly with commercial interests." o "The security issues and the management issues are enormous and make us cautious about how we move forward. Encryption and billing issues need to be addressed." o "The Internet runs basically on goodwill right now and that is something that, in the long run, might not be a viable way to operate that network when the network evolves to be something that works for commercial users." In addition, Favaloro said, object-oriented programs and encapsulation techniques will be important to the information superhighway because "right now you have to pick up the pieces in a lot of different places to do what you want to do. There has to be a very significant software revolution." *** Need for Security, Manageability Paul agreed that security and manageability are two weaknesses of the Internet for commercial use. "The biggest business weakness is security," he said. "Everybody wants to be connected to the Internet but not let anybody in [to their business]. You kind of build these firewalls for useability, but we have to realize that we're not going to build a secure Internet. There will be other mechanisms. There will be more secure networks set up for businesses to use to do transactions." However, business can do useful things on an unsecured network, he added. While reliability of services and naming are issues to be resolved, changing the Internet has to be done carefully. "We have to remember that the strength of the Internet is its organic nature and its community of effort," Paul said. "So I don't think we want one big body that's going to somehow manage the growth of the Internet. At the same time, just realize that that causes a problem with the reliability of services. But let's not turn the Internet into something that it isn't." The Internet's biggest strengths, Paul said, are its ability to connect people personally through e-mail, boosted by the recent surge in people naming their Internet addresses, as well as the availability of newsgroups. "The number one attribute is connectivity," he said. "You need to have people that you can be connected to. The Internet is the most widespread network in the world, and mail is the number one application." For newsgroups to work, "You need a large population to contribute. You can have some pretty obscure little newsgroups on the Internet, but because there are so many people attached, you can actually find that the 20 people in the world who are interested in that subject have a way to talk to each other. I think that's a great strength of the Internet." In addition, "There is just a lot of information out there lying around wanting to be read but no one can find it. Mosaic is the killer application for finding that information." End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ Internet, Yea; Superhighway, Nay --------------------------------- Co-Founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation warns against top-down control John Perry Barlow sees the Internet not so much as a product of technology or as a communication tool, but rather as a living organism, capable of tremendous and productive growth, and in need of protection from evil forces. Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), former cattle rancher, and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, spoke to attendees of The Santa Cruz Operation's Eighth Annual SCO Forum last month on the campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. His iconoclastic and visionary perspective included these major points: o The information superhighway is a very bad idea that will never work. Its main competitor is the Internet, which does work and will prevail. o The government is promoting the information superhighway so it can impose top-down control on the communications infrastructure. o Top-down control would destroy the chances for economic growth via the Internet, superhighway or other means of global electronic networking. "The information superhighway is the mother of all bad metaphors because what they propose is nothing at all like a highway," Barlow said. "The telephone companies and the cable companies cooked it up because they wanted to compete. The phone companies want to get into pay-per-view." But they don't understand how the Internet works, philosophically, and why it has been successful, he said. "Their information superhighway would be too much a one-way thoroughfare. The Internet works because it allows interaction with another human being, which is what everybody wants-not 150 lanes in one direction and a footpath in the other." Barlow contends the information superhighway will not succeed because of complexity and cost. Communications planners and architects can't impose a successful communications system from the top down, he declared. "We've reached a level of technical complexity that can no longer be understood by any central planner or architect. We have to start doing it the way life does it, which is from the edges and the middle. Life comes up from the bottom and not down from the top, and that's kind of the way the Internet works." And he adds, "Are American people really willing to pay that kind of money to get a bad version of pay TV? I think they're not." *** The Internet-A Life Form In Barlow's view, the Internet is a new thing on this planet, with all the attributes of life itself-in effect, a life form. He sees it as ironic that the Internet was started by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) as ARPANET, a way of linking U.S. defense forces together during a nuclear attack. "These people who wanted to do nuclear war created the largest anarchy in the world. And if you don't enjoy irony like that, you're not going to like the 21st century at all," Barlow said. He predicted that the Internet will have the largest effect of anything since the invention of fire. But he urged listeners not to tell the phone and cable companies that their idea will never come about "because I think the good thing is that before they discover this, they're going to lay a lot of fiber-optic cable. The street finds its own uses for things. I want them to put all the infrastructure that they can out there before they decide they need to haul in their horns." The more sinister side of the information superhighway proposal is tied into government efforts to wire surveillance systems into all information infrastructure, via things like the Clipper Chip, which would specifically allow government eavesdropping. "These surveillance systems will be more pervasive than anything any government has been able to plan before," Barlow said. "And people should become much more aware of questions related to encryption, digital telephony, and a host of those kinds of issues. The government is quite serious about wiring the Internet for sound. And they're actually clueless enough about the technology that they are innocent of the evil they propose. They don't realize the extent to which they are empowering a lot of transactional analysis that will make it possible for the entire American population to be studied at once. And patterns that emerge will be mapped to behavioral patterns that whatever government is in charge happens to like, which is not an outcome that will be pretty to anyone that has a heterodox point of view like me, or, I would guess, many of you." Another bothersome aspect of global communications on the Internet is the question of censorship. "When Mitch Kapor and I founded EFF, one of our objectives was to make certain that the First Amendment applied to cyberspace," Barlow said, "that it applied to bits as well as ink. We hadn't been at this very long before we realized that the First Amendment was a local ordinance, and that we were going to have to come up with a better way of protecting freedom of expression that wasn't legally based on one precinct or another on the planet. But the American government hasn't figured this out at all. As far as they are concerned, they own the whole thing, somehow. Fortunately, the Internet has ways of dealing with this. The Internet deals with censorship as though it were a malfunction." On the other hand, governments have a reason to fear encryption of commercial data, he pointed out. "It's not kiddie porn or nuclear terrorists. It's that if you have a widely deployed system of digital cash, it's not inconceivable that taxation becomes voluntary. Government will not like that. I'm not sure that I do." *** Making Money Although few have made money off the Internet yet, compared to the potential, Barlow suspects that they will and that they are now in a lot of indirect ways. "You have to start thinking about what value is in a different way. The Internet is a giant volunteer project at this point. Why are people spending so much time entering so much stuff? It's because information has value in and of itself, and people want to barter and exchange it. Right now you go to work, you get some money and go down to Waldenbooks, and you buy some information. There are two points in the process that don't need to be there-getting the money and spending the money. I think there's a lot of that demonitarized transaction taking place that people can't quite fit into their economic model because we don't have one that incorporates that. Eventually, I think we will." Although government control could stifle American economic benefits, Barlow said he thinks they're going to have a very difficult time imposing control on it, but could "screw up" a lot of things in the process of trying. "They are going to seriously hobble American commerce and they already have to a greater extent than they know. If anybody who is trying to do virtual business with the United States knows that every bit that is transacted is going to be read by the National Security Agency, that person is probably not going to do very much business with the United States or anybody in it. You have to go to your own governments and try to make them aware of the issues. Canada is one of the governments that's hovering on the edge here and it would be helpful to get them involved." Barlow's EFF was founded in 1990 following government action against hackers during the May 1990 Operation Sun Devil raids by the Secret Service. EFF, headquartered in Washington, D.C., aims to educate and inform computer users of changes in the industry, and guard against infringement of First Amendment rights due to investigation and arrest of hackers. End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ Barlow on Internet and the Law ------------------------------- "I come from a place where law is a very recent arrival. When I was in the cattle business, I never signed a contract. In Sublette County, Wyoming, lawyers are for people who are too gutless to shoot. In fact, I'd rather be shot. I think that a society that becomes as legalistic as the one that we live in loses all track of ethics as a method of controlling itself. There's an inverse relationship between ethics and law. The Internet is developing very, very fast. And law has a rate of development that is second only to geology in stateliness. It's a fundamental mismatch. So we're going to have to come up with systems that are a lot more like the ones I grew up with. That has some ugly side effects, like vigilantism, which I have already seen happen." "One of the things about a legalistic society is that it proceeds from the assumption that people are bad, which I don't personally think is true and I think we're going to have a chance to find out on the Internet." End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ When it comes to Open Computing, the Solution is... UniForum '95 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The official conference and exposition for Open Computing Solutions March 14-16, 1995 Dallas Convention Center Dallas, Texas Register by fax! Call 617-449-5554, enter Code 70 and have your fax number ready - we'll fax back your registration form within 24 hours! NEW UniForum on-line ... for the lastest information! Internet World Wide Web URL:http://www.uniforum.org Now managed by The Interface Group, the producer of Comdex¨. Sponsored by UniForum, The International Association of Open Systems Professionals. End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Holt: MOSES Leader Writes Dictionary ------------------------------------------ Air Force career led down a UNIX path for US West manager Name: William H. Holt Age: 48 Place of Birth: Hanford, CA Position: Manager of Production Open Systems Administration, US West NewVector Group. Years in Current Position: 5 Years in the Industry: 13 Cars He Drives: 1986 white Corvette ("My Baby"); 1992 Subaru Station Wagon ("My Trash Hauler") Last Book Read: "The 101st Airborne at Normandy" by Mark Bando Pet Open Systems Peeve: "Vendors who advertise themselves as being players in open systems but only want you to use their products, making it proprietary to that vendor." Favorite Piece of Personal Philosophy: "Dumb luck prevails over skill and cunning. I believe that happens quite a bit, but you've also got to make your own luck at the same time." It was 1989 and Bill Holt had just retired from the U.S. Air Force and begun working for US West NewVector Group, based in Bellevue, WA, a division that manages the cellular communications business of US West. He was on an airplane headed for San Francisco to attend a system administration course, and was reading a new system administration book when he ran across a term he didn't know. "I didn't have the slightest idea what the author was talking about," Holt recalls. He doesn't remember the term today, but he does remember the frustration he went through. "I reread the page before the term and the page after the term several times. I went to the glossary and the term was in the glossary. I read the definition and I still didn't understand what the term meant. I thought, 'I've been in this business for 10 years and I should understand these terms but I don't.'" Thus was born the book, UNIX: An Open Systems Dictionary, co-authored by Holt and Rockie J. Morgan and published by Resolution Business Press, Bellevue, WA. (Resolution Press may be contacted at (206) 455-4611 or rbpress@halcyon.com.) What Holt had in mind was a glossary of UNIX terms written in plain English. The project assumed larger proportions when the publisher decided it should be a dictionary, and consumed the next five years. Since the idea was to make the definitions free of "computerese," the editor, Karen Strudwick, sent all the definitions she didn't understand back for rewriting. "We tried not to make the definitions technobabble," Holt says. The book became available last month in Seattle area bookstores and includes, according to the cover, "over 6,000 jargon-free definitions." Holt credits Morgan with interpreting most of the technical terms. Holt gleaned most of the terms from a collection of UNIX books, plus his religious reading of a variety of trade publications. But Bill Holt is more than a computing manager and dictionary author. He was one of the founders of the Massive Open Systems Environment Standard group (MOSES), has been active in helping plan seminars in conjunction with UniForum, is president of the Sequent Users Resource Forum-an association of Sequent computer users-and serves as a member of Network Computing magazine's readers advisory council. *** Started with UNIX in 1981 A native of central California, Holt came to UNIX by way of his career as an Air Force supply officer. After graduating from California State University, Fresno, with a degree in retail marketing, Holt entered the Air Force via ROTC in 1969. In 1981, upon reporting for a new assignment at the headquarters of Air Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Holt found himself in a newly-created program office called the European Distribution System. "Its purpose in life was to try to implement the Air Force's first UNIX system in an operational environment by interconnecting all the bases within Europe using the Defense Data Network," Holt recalls. "It would have alternative dial-up systems for redundancy, to redistribute parts between the Air Force bases in the event of a war in Europe, when there would be no free flow of spare parts coming from the United States after the war started." Holt was brought into the program as the supply officer, whose job was to make supply decisions related to programming, support and other elements. "As time went on, I learned more about UNIX. We were doing everything in UNIX." He took UNIX courses at the Air Force Institute of Technology and through various vendors. He then became program manager for the Logistics Command, Control, and Communications program, responsible for the purchase and implementation of UNIX system for the European program. After two years of managing that effort, he was appointed director of the entire European program, consisting of the implementation of the UNIX system in Europe, along with communications, the installation of large warehouses, and the purchase and support of aircraft to fly the parts between the European bases. Holt retired before the project was completed. Later, in the wake of the political changes in Europe and the lessening of East-West tensions, the program was canceled before it was fully implemented. Holt believes that decision was correct, but adds, "If there hadn't been a change in the environment of the world that we've see over the last 10 years, it would have been a stupid mistake." In his current job, Holt manages the production and support of UNIX systems and a data network for NewVector, the group that the public knows as US West Cellular, whose business is cellular telephone service in 14 western states. "I've got 21 large Sequent UNIX boxes sitting on the floor, ranging in size from 256MB of memory with six CPUs and about 8GB of disk on it, to the large-end box, which has 12 CPUs with one and one half gigabytes of memory and 125GB of disk on it," Holt explains. "We run an Oracle client/server environment and a UNIX flat file environment with about 50 percent of the company run on the UNIX boxes." The machines perform various functions, including centralized event monitoring and alarming for the entire cellular network; credit checks and verifications for all new customers; running customer service applications used to talk to customers and respond to customer questions using an Oracle database; and support for roamers-cellular subscribers visiting from outside the cellular area. Another system does nothing but take data off other machines and perform traffic measurement and analysis. Still another machine, about to go into production, will automate the processing of bills, ending what Holt calls "one of the largest sneaker nets in the world." *** Helped Found MOSES Before the founding of MOSES, Holt was a member of the Very Large Database (VLDB) group, started by Oracle. "Some of the people involved, such as Burlington Coat Factory, Millipore, Oracle and ourselves had decided that we needed to form something to address the other problems besides just databases, in managing a large UNIX data center. We beat the bushes for people who were interested." They found, in addition to those companies, British Telecom and Sequent Computer Systems. MOSES had its first meeting in April 1992 and organized to "identify and develop standards for common methods, tools, utilities, policies and procedures used in operating large UNIX data centers." The group is defining a specification for those elements that would promote consistent operational performance in a large-scale UNIX production environment. Members try to share definitions of practical standards and operational procedures that manage how systems are set up and managed. MOSES will hold a conference in conjunction with UniForum Feb. 9-11, which will immediately follow a meeting of the Sequent Users Resource Forum (SURF) in San Diego. "A lot of the future of where MOSES is going to go will depend on how successful we turn out to be with this show," Holt says. More information on the MOSES conference is available by calling Debbie Bonnin, UniForum conference and seminar manager, at (408) 986-8840 ext. 12. *** Samples from the Book Definitions from UNIX: An Open Systems Dictionary by William H. Holt and Rockie J. Morgan: o anti-aliasing Process of smoothing the edges of a computer-generated picture. See aliasing, IG, pixel and raster. o Apache Group Original name for the Mips ABI Group, renamed the Mips SVR4 Special Interest Group in 1992 and again renamed the Mips ABI Group in 1993. See Mips ABI Group. o cuckoo's egg Program placed in a system by a hacker that substitutes for a standard program and allows the hacker to gain unauthorized access to data. Term introduced by Clifford Stoll in his book The Cuckoo's Egg. See hacker and Trojan horse. o DSP Directory System Protocol. Open Systems Interconnection X.500 directory services protocol used to send inquiries between Directory Systems Agents to obtain information about users on the network. See OSI, X.500, DSA, DAP, DUA, DIT, DN and DISP. o Legion of Doom Group of UNIX hackers whose members, located across the United States, were indicted as a result of a Secret Service investigation. o no news is good news Principle on which UNIX commands function. UNIX commands generally respond to user inputs only when an error is made in a command line. If no response is received, the user can assume the command was successfully completed. See command line. End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ Affiliate News --------------- UniForum Austria Joins Affiliated Organizations UniForum Austria has joined the growing list of international associations affiliated with UniForum. The group is headquartered in Vienna and has grown steadily from 15 members to about 150 since its inception in 1986. Started as a support organization for those who work with UNIX professionally, the group holds meetings about once a month, where presentations and discussions are held on open systems topics. About twice a year, conferences are held in Vienna lasting two or three days, covering such topics as network administration, client/server architecture, decentralized data processing, and quality assurance in software development. "Topics that we are doing less now are straight system administration or straight coding," says Friedrich Kofler, general manager of F&F Electronics in Vienna and president of UniForum Austria. "We are doing more overviews of technology now, as well as presentations of technical papers." UniForum Austria publishes a newsletter called Expert Domain which is distributed periodically to its members and other interested parties. The association has two working groups, one on system and network administration and the other dealing with software quality assurance. "We are trying to establish some more groups," Kofler says. In addition, the group helped found a company that is dealing in commercial Internet access in Austria, and is a minority shareholder in the company. Although the association does not operate an Internet connection itself, it does intend to offer some newsgroups and mailing lists for the benefit of its members who have Internet access. The Austrian group is affiliated with EurOpen, the European umbrella organization for UNIX user groups. Kofler further hopes that his group's affiliation with UniForum will broaden its international contacts and enable it to become involved in international events. "UniForum is well known for having good sources of information," Kofler says. "We are affiliating first for the quality of information and secondly to be strongly linked with an international association's membership." End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ The Second International World-Wide Web(WWW) Conference -------------------------------------------------------- MOSAIC AND THE WEB October 17-20, 1994 Chicago, Illinois, at the Ramada-Congress Hotel UniForum, the International Association of Open Systems Professionals, is delighted to announce its cooperation with the above conference sponsored by: o National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign o Open Software Foundation (OSF) Research Institute o National Science Foundation (NSF) o The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) People are excited about Mosaic! -Academicians, government officials and business people will all come together to discuss their WWW and Mosaic activities and tangible results. This conference is not about a piece of code; it is about a revolution as significant as that engendered by the printing press. Mosaic and the Web are introducing a major transformation in the way in which knowledge is being expressed and communicated around the world. Participants will meet other users, talk, share information, and explore the latest and greatest WWW and Mosaic developments. Sessions will cover information discovery and retrieval, HTML, information security, server administration, and much more. Emphasis will be given to practical applications, demonstrated techniques, tangible results, existing tools and systems, and the latest research. The Schedule: o Monday - Tutorials o Tuesday & Wednesday - Conference Sessions, Workshops, Panels, & BOFs (Birds of Feather sessions) o Thursday - Programmers and Developers To receive a registration packet, send your information to: Sandy Caldwell (well@osf.org) OSF Research Institute One Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 617/621-7339; FAX 617/621-8696 Registration and program information may be queried via the web: End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ OSF To Host Symposiums ----------------------- The Open Software Foundation (OSF) will host three one-day technology symposiums during September and October. Free for all attendees, the meetings will focus on OSF's Pre-structured Technol-ogy process and the upcoming Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) release 1.1 features. DCE case studies, security issues and integrating legacy systems with DCE will also be on the agenda. 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