The Internet's coming of age / Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet.

Physical Description:

xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2001]

Summary:

What is the Internet? Most of us perceive it as a big, single, seamless structure -- when it's actually a set of largely autonomous, loosely coordinated communications networks. This timely 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. It's helpful to anyone looking for direction as the Internet continues to take shape.

Contents:

What Is the Internet? 29

Success by Design

Abstract Features and Principles 34

The Internet's "Hourglass" Architecture 36

The Robustness Principle 39

Scalable, Distributed, and Adaptive Design 40

From Internet Technology to Internet Marketplace 41

Internet Organizations 43

Key Trends in Internet Development 44

Growth in Backbone Capacity 45

Growth and Diversification of the ISP Market 46

Upgrading the Local Access Infrastructure 46

Growing Role for Wireless Services 49

Voice and Data Services 50

Rise in the Use of Single-Purpose Devices 50

Future Evolution and Success 51

2 Scaling Up the Internet and Making It More Reliable and Robust 53

Building a Better Internet 53

Scaling 54

Scaling of Capacity 55

Scaling of Protocols and Algorithms 56

Scaling of the Internet's Naming Systems 58

Scaling up the Address Space 64

Managing Addresses 65

Routing Table Scaling and Address Aggregation 66

Running Out of Addresses? 71

Network Address Translation 76

IPv6: A Potential Solution to Addressing and Configuration 77

Deploying an IPv6 Solution 79

Reliability and Robustness 81

Designing for Robustness and Reliability 82

Vulnerability of the Internet to Attack 84

More Adaptive Routing 89

Application Reliability and Robustness 92

Robustness and Auxiliary Servers 93

Toward Greater Reliability and Robustness: Reporting Outages and Failures 94

Quality of Service 98

3 Keeping the Internet the Internet: Interconnection, Openness, and Transparency 107

Interconnection: Maintaining End-to-End Service Through Multiple Providers 107

Structure of the Internet Service Provider Industry 109

Interconnection Mechanisms and Agreements 112

Considerations Affecting Decisions to Enter into Peering Agreements 118

Evolution of Interconnection Models 121

Monitoring Internet Interconnection 123

Openness and Innovation 124

Critical Open Standards in the Internet

The Hourglass Architecture 126

The Internet As a Platform for Application Innovation 131

Evolution of Internet Standards Setting 132

End-to-End Transparency 138

Addressing Issues 139

Nonuniform Treatment of Bits 142

Market and Business Influences on Openness 145

Keeping the Internet Open 149

4 Collisions Between Existing Industries and Emerging Internet Industries: Telephony As a Case Study 151

What Is IP Telephony? 152

New and Evolving Architectures for Telephony 154

IP Telephony Architectures 155

The Evolving Architecture of the PSTN 159

Architectural Contrasts Between IP Telephony and Today's PSTN 161

Scenarios for Future Evolution 162

Interoperation Between IP Telephony and the PSTN 165

Addressing and Number Portability 167

Signaling and Control and Service Creation 168

Robustness 169

Implications of IP Telephony for Telephony Regulation 170

Looking Forward: The Internet and Other Industry Sectors 175

5 Implications for Broad Public Policy 177

Privacy, Anonymity, and Identity 180

Privacy 180

Anonymity 190

Identity 194

Authentication on the Internet 199

Taxation of Internet-based Commerce 205

Universal Service 209

Appendix Biographies of Committee Members 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0309069920

OCLC:

45283314