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- N-1-1-075.06 Internet Digest, by John S. Quarterman*, <jsq@tic.com>
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- Matrix News is a monthly paper newsletter about contextual issues
- related to computer networks; preferably issues that cross network,
- organizational, or political boundaries.
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- The first issue included an article on "National Network Policy",
- which has been followed by articles such as, "Exactly What is the
- NREN?", by Jay Habegger, and by the guest editorials (called Martian
- Packets), "Encouraging Equitable Competition on the Internet", by
- Mitchell Kapor, "Public Institutions in an Electronic Society", by
- Steve Cisler, and "Walking the Beat in the Global Village", by Richard
- Civille. Steve Jackson's "The Top Ten Media Errors About the SJ Games
- Raid", is also relevant. The monthly Network Policy Updates have
- mentioned the first EARN connection to Moscow and the passing of the
- NREN bill. Network policy is not just national, as indicated in R.R.
- Ronkin's "Global Cyberspace -- Who Needs It".
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- Every issue attempts to draw connections between technology, politics,
- and community, ranging from Smoot Carl-Mitchell's "X.400 - Fact and
- Fancy", to John S. Quarterman's "Networks from Technology to
- Community", "Boundaries, Resources and the Law", "Which Network,
- and Why It Matters", and "Analogy is Not Identity". We also print
- reports from networked communities, such as artists in "Cyber Art:
- The Art of Communication Systems", by Anna Couey or Billy Barron's
- "Libraries on the Matrix" and "BBSing Around the OuterNet".
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- User and directory services are often covered, with the Martian Packet
- "On the Need to Develop Internet User Services", by Peter Deutsch
- There were MIDS reports on the CNI and NSF Directory Services
- workshops, and the articles, "Strategies for Finding People on
- Networks" and "Networks Are Volunteers".
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- Issue 5 (August) was a theme issue on K-12 (Kindergarten-12th Grade)
- networking, with articles on KIDSNET, the electronic college
- classroom, and specific K-12 networking projects. Issue 8 (November)
- examines networks in Argentina in depth and reviews the program
- netfind.
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- For further information, please contact: mids@tic.com.
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- *Editor, Matrix News, Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS)
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