TY - GEN N2 - "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." AB - "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." T1 - The Internet's coming of age. CN - TK5105.875.I57 LA - eng N1 - Description based upon print version of record. ID - 12775 KW - Internet. KW - Internet KW - Internet KW - Infornation science TI - The Internet's coming of age. ER -