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The Internet's coming of age. Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure.
2001
D 80 INT
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Title
The Internet's coming of age. Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure.
Description
xvii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780309505093 electronic book
9780309069922
9780309069922
Alternate Call Number
D 80 INT
Summary
"This book explains basic design choices that underlie the Internet's success, identifies key trends in the evolution of the Internet, evaluates current and prospective technical, operational, and management challenges, and explores the resulting implications for decision makers. The authoring committee - composed of distinguished leaders from both industry and the academic community - makes recommendations aimed at policy makers, industry, and researchers and discusses a variety of issues: how the Internet's constituent parts are interlinked, and how economic and technical factors make maintaining the Internet's seamless appearance complicated; how the Internet faces scaling challenges as it grows to meet the demands of users in the future; tensions inherent between open innovation on the Internet and the ability of innovators to capture the commercial value of their breakthroughs; regulatory issues posed by the Internet's entry into other sectors, such as telephony."
Note
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Introduction and context; 2. Scaling up the internet and making it more reliable and robust; 3. Keeping the internet the internet: interconnection, openness, and transparency; 4. Collisions between existing industries and emerging internet industries: telephony as a case study; 5. Implications for broad public policy.
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2001.
Language
English
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Review
"This book explains basic design choices that underlie the Internet's success, identifies key trends in the evolution of the Internet, evaluates current and prospective technical, operational, and management challenges, and explores the resulting implications for decision makers. The authoring committee - composed of distinguished leaders from both industry and the academic community - makes recommendations aimed at policy makers, industry, and researchers and discusses a variety of issues: how the Internet's constituent parts are interlinked, and how economic and technical factors make maintaining the Internet's seamless appearance complicated; how the Internet faces scaling challenges as it grows to meet the demands of users in the future; tensions inherent between open innovation on the Internet and the ability of innovators to capture the commercial value of their breakthroughs; regulatory issues posed by the Internet's entry into other sectors, such as telephony."