Subject: Personal Net Server

From: Bob Allisat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:10:58 -0500 (EST)

The reason I have been so strident in advocating Desktop
 DNS is because I believe the Personal Computer as we know
 it is evolving into a 24/7/365 Personal Internet Server.
 With the owner of that machine acting as their own System
 Operator and Administrator. Therefore having a functional
 Virtual Domain Name Sever resident is critical.

 Furthermore Mail, WWW, push or streaming video/audio and
 whatever other server functions evolve in the next while
 must also be included in this greater vision of modern
 personal and business communications. Instead of being
 more or less wholey dependant upon an ISP we will become
 our own ISP. The only thing the wire, fibre or other
 connectivity medium attaching us to the Net will offer
 is a virtual dial tone (shorn of the massive telco
 overhang!). Another reason BTW for vastly more TLDs
 coming into creation ASAP...

 What technical and functional advantage would such a
 development provide? The answer to that question lies
 in the common experiences of the hundred million people
 who currently make up the Internet. We will be removed
 from depending on some central source for everything
 from addressing to mail. The network will become entirely
 robust so that each node becomes fully capable of surviving
 the failure, blockage or disruption of every other node.

 The creative release the Personal Net Server will offer is
 the most important outcome of this potential development. 
 Placing the full power of the net in every person's hands
 is an incredible challenge that will return rewards vastly
 greater than anything we have witnessed to date. People
 will be able to bidirectionally participate on all levels.
 That will create an unparrelleled explosion of contents
 and creativity in all fields and at all levels. Perhaps
 that is the key reason to pursue the Personal Net Server
 as a critical tecnological not to mention cultural goal.

 Respectfully,

 Bob Allisat

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