No, not Intellectual Property, rather Internet Protocol.
Preparing for my trip to Managua last week, I wondered what cell phone, Internet access and TV would be like at the hotel in Managua. Even more I wondered about the rural Nicaraguan areas, where I soon learned that sometimes the creek beds look better for driving than the roads.
I began to write this on a flight from Managua back to Houston, after 3 days with Keith Jaspers, founder/president of http://RainbowNetwork.org/, and Rev. Mel West, a retired pastor who introduced my family to Rainbow Network 8 or 10 years ago.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
Part of why video conferencing got sidetracked in the 1990s were the wasted, ultimately counter-productive, efforts associated with ITU-T Recommendation T.120, “Data protocols for multimedia conferencing”, an ambitious family of specifications, once seemingly essential to the industry, and now disdained.
Mainstream Videoconferencing: A Developer’s Guide to Distance Multimedia, which Joe Duran and I wrote from 1994-96, has been out of print for some time. The publisher has transferred the copyright back to the authors, and we have made a PDF of a lightly edited version available under a Creative Commons license.
Older book material and supplements are available at
https://technologists.com/DuranSauer/.
http://www.charliemccoy.com/biographie.php: “Al Kooper described a typical Charlie McCoy incident which took place during the sessions for Dylan’s “Blonde On Blonde” Album. One song called for a trumpet part which should have been an easy overdub, except that Dylan didn’t care for overdubs. So McCoy, while playing bass with his left hand, played trumpet with his right hand, without missing a beat. Kooper points out that Dylan stopped in the middle of the song, amazed.” (The song was probably not “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”, based on the sound and reports such as MYSTIC NIGHTS: The Making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville. [Update cinco de Mayo 2022: just bought Kooper’s book which says it was “You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine”.1])
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