Education Network Australia (EdNA)

[Chris Patterson]

Hmmm, I got the message (x12)!
> 
> >Roger Clarke wrote in response to a posting from Robert Hart (referring to
> >the availability of info regarding EdNA):
> >
> >..."I've checked at edna and deet sites and can't see anything new there.
> 
> Graham Adcock promptly provided the address.
> 
> 
> 1.  My apologies for my error.  I suspect that I looked at an old version of
> the EdNA home-page (maybe I had it in cache and didn't 'reload'?).  It's
> certainly there now!  Oh, well, a bit of free advertising ...
> 
> 
> 2.  Are there plans for the EdNA pages to be progressively revised to carry
> pointers to each new submission?
> 
> That would make it much easier for everyone to develop their thinking, and, if
> it comes to that, for the battle-lines to be drawn.
> 
> It would also save Tony, Tom and other knights from charging around the
> battlefield unnecessarily  ...
> 
> 
> 3.  I had one very serious misgiving about the original documents:  they
> used the term 'reception infrastructure'.  Perhaps accidentally, this
> raised the spectre of force-feeding;  of fat broadband channels into the
> living-room, and narrow-band request channels out.  For arguments about
> this, see Principle 2, towards the end of:
> http://commerce.anu.edu.au/comm/staff/RogerC/Info_Infrastructure/PaperNSCF.htm
> and
> http://commerce.anu.edu.au/comm/staff/RogerC/Info_Infrastructure/PaperIIPoli
> cy.html
> 
> If there's to be a new term for the hardware/software/ combo that is
> installed at the client end, then it needs to be something like
> 'participation infrastructure'.
> 
> On a quick scan of the new document, the term 'reception infrastructure'
> wasn't evident.  I do hope it's gone for good.
> 
> 
> 
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