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There are thousands of networks in the internet. There are tens of
thousands of host machines. There are hundreds of thousands of
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... host machines. There are hundreds of thousands of
users. It takes a great deal of effort to manage the resources and
protocols which make the Internet possible. Sites may have people
who get paid to manage their hardware and software. But the
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... who get paid to manage their hardware and software. But the
infrastructure of the Internet is managed by volunteers who spend
considerable portions of their valued time to keep the people
connected.
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... interface to other standards bodies and to the funding institutions.
Without them, the IETF, indeed the whole Internet, would not be
possible.
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... IETF in St.
Louis this coming March will be the 20th plenary. It is a good
time to credit the people who help make the Internet possible. I
am sending this request to the current members of the IAB, the
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... paragraphs. The first paragraph should contain your bio, second
should be your school affiliation & other interests, and the third
should contain your opinion of how the Internet has grown. Of
course, if there is anything else you would like to say, please
feel free. The object is to let the very large user community
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... National Software Works. In 1978, he became a member of the
TCP Internet Working Group and began developing a TCP/IP
implementation for the IBM system. As a result, UCLA's
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... University College London. At that time, he wrote the first
Telnet/XXX relay system connecting the Internet with the UK
academic X.25 network ...
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For me, participation in the development of the ARPAnet and
the Internet protocols has been very exciting. One important
reason it worked, I believe, is that there were a lot of very
bright people all working more or less in the same direction,
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... IAB is sometimes very frustrating. For
some years now we have been painfully aware of the scaling
problems of the Internet, and since 1982 have lived through a
series of mini-disasters as various limits have been
exceeded. We have been saying that "getting big" is probably
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... importance of launching the kind of research
program we think is necessary to learn how to deal with
Internet growth.
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... likely to stop, or when, if ever, the fundamental
architectural model of the Internet will be so out of kilter
with reality that it will cease be useful. Ask me again in
ten years.
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... NSFNET backbone project since the NSFNET award went to
Merit in November 1987 and managed Merit's Internet
Engineering group. Between April 1978 and April 1983 Hans-
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... Group of the Federal
Networking Council (FEPG) since its beginnings in early 1989,
a member of the Internet Activities Board (IAB), the Internet
Engineering Task Force. He had participated in an earlier,
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... a member of the Internet Activities Board (IAB), the Internet
Engineering Task Force. He had participated in an earlier,
informal, version of the Internet Engineering Steering Group ...
... Internet
Engineering Task Force. He had participated in an earlier,
informal, version of the Internet Engineering Steering Group
and the then existing Internet Architecture Task Force. While
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... version of the Internet Engineering Steering Group
and the then existing Internet Architecture Task Force. While
at Merit, Hans-Werner Braun was also Principal Investigator
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The growth of the Internet can be measured in many ways and I
can only try to find some examples.
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There were days where being "connected to net 10" was the
Greatest Thing Ever. A time where the Internet just
consisted of a few networks centered around the ARPAnet and
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The Internet has undergone a dramatic increase in traffic
over the last few years. The NSFNET backbone ...
... Internet Engineering Task Force participation ...
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At some point of time the Internet was centric around the US
with very little international connectivity. The
international connectivity was for network ...
... network research purposes,
just like the US domestic component at that point of time.
Today's Internet stretches to so many countries that it can
be considered close to global in scope, in particular as more
and more international connections ...
... be considered close to global in scope, in particular as more
and more international connections to, as well as Internet
infrastructure within, other countries are happening.
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Many trade journals just a year or two ago had close to no
mention of the Internet. Today references to the Internet
appear in many journals and press releases from a variety of
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... Many trade journals just a year or two ago had close to no
mention of the Internet. Today references to the Internet
appear in many journals and press releases from a variety of
places.
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Publications like ACM SIGCOMM show increased interest for
Internet related professional papers, compared to a few years
ago. Also the publication rate of the Request For Comments
(RFC) series is quite impressive.
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A few years ago the Internet was "just a research project."
Today's dramatically increased visibility in result of the
Internet ...
... Internet was "just a research project."
Today's dramatically increased visibility in result of the
Internet success allows Congress as well as Senators to play
lead roles in pushing the National Research and Education
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... DARPA, though, for starting to
prototype advanced networking, leading to the Internet about
twenty years ago and over time opening it up more and more to
the science and research community until more operational
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The Internet funding initially consisted of DARPA efforts.
Agencies like NSF, NASA, DOE and others started to make major
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The Internet has matured from a network research oriented
environment to an operational infrastructure supporting
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... environment to an operational infrastructure supporting
research, science and education at large. However, even
though for many people the Internet is an environment
supporting their day-to-day work, the Internet at its current
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... though for many people the Internet is an environment
supporting their day-to-day work, the Internet at its current
level of technology is supported by a culture of people that
cooperates in a largely non-competitive environment. Many
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... just to name examples, have broken connectivity with many
people being interrupted in their day-to-day work. Global
Internet management and problem resolution further hamper
fast recovery ...
... networks, it should be pointed out that
monthly figures are very macroscopic views. Much of the
Internet traffic is very bursty and we have frequently seen
an onslaught of traffic towards backbone ...
... SMTP. I am not sure
whether the amount of research and development efforts on the
Internet has increased over time, less even kept pace with
the general Internet growth (by whatever definition). I do
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... Internet has increased over time, less even kept pace with
the general Internet growth (by whatever definition). I do
not believe that the Internet is a finished product at this
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... the general Internet growth (by whatever definition). I do
not believe that the Internet is a finished product at this
point of time and there is a lot of room for further
evolution.
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... TCP/IP interoperation and introduction of OSI in the
Internet. He is the author of the Integrated IS-IS protocol
(RFC 1195prop ...
... addressing to very large Internets, and is co-author of the
guidelines for allocation of NSAP addresses in the Internet
(RFC 1237(-> 1629draft)).
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During eleven years of involvement with the Internet
community it has been exciting to see the explosive growth in
data communications from a relatively obscure technology to a
technology in widespread everyday use. For the future, I am
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... interested in transition to a world-wide multi-protocol
Internet. This requires scaling to several orders of
magnitude larger than the current Internet, and also requires
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... Internet. This requires scaling to several orders of
magnitude larger than the current Internet, and also requires
a greater emphasis on reliability and ease of use. Probably
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1986-present, Vice President, Corporation for National
Research Initiatives. Responsible for Internet, Digital
Library and Electronic Mail system interconnection research
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1979-1982, ex officio member of ICCB (predecessor to the
Internet Activities Board), member of IAB from 1986-1989 and
chairman from 1989-1991.
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... vendor interest, government agencies in
addition to DoD began applying the technology to their needs,
culminating in the formation of the Federal Research Internet
Coordinating Committee which has now evolved into the Federal
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... Africa. The internationalization of the
Internet has spawned new organizational foci such as the
Coordinating Committee for International Research Networking
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The Internet has also become the basis for a proposed
National Research and Education Network (NREN) in the U.S.
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... Europe).
The Bitnet and UUCP-based systems are international in scope
and complement the Internet system in terms of email
connectivity.
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... OSI capability (in the form of CLNP)
into important parts of the Internet (such as the NSFNET
backbone and selected intermediate level networks), a path
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... networks), a path
has been opened to support the use of multiple protocol
suites in the Internet. Many of the vendor routers/gateways ...
... services which can support TCP/IP
and other Internet protocols. On the research side, DARPA and
the NSF are supporting a major initiative in gigabit ...
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The Internet is a grand collaboration of over 5000 networks
involving millions of users, hundreds of thousands of hosts ...
... principal occupation, however, is his service as the Internet
Area Co-director for the Internet Engineering Steering Group
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... service as the Internet
Area Co-director for the Internet Engineering Steering Group
of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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... Area Co-director for the Internet Engineering Steering Group
of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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... Group on Data
Communications (SIGCOMM) since July of 1991; and chairman of
the Internet Activities Board (IAB), of which he has been a
member since 1989. He lives with his wife and two young
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... networking, and every time we needed to send electronic mail
or exchange files, we were using the TCP/IP-based Internet!
I've been looking for ways to overcome this anomaly ever
since; to inject as much of the proven TCP/IP ...
... OSI as possible, and to introduce OSI into an ever more
pervasive and worldwide Internet. It is, to say the least, a
challenge!
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... networks as connecting
computers. Rather, they connect people using computers to
mediate. The great success of the internet is not technical,
but in human impact. Electronic mail may not be a wonderful
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... advance in Computer Science, but it is a whole new way for
people to communicate. The continued growth of the Internet
is a technical challenge to all of us, but we must never
loose sight of where we came from, the great change we have
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I've watched the Internet grow from its beginning. At UCLA
we had the privilege of being the first of the Arpanet. In
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How will the Internet evolve? I expect to see substantial
developments in the following dimensions.
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... TCP/IP stack and the OSI stack will be resolved with
The Internet will become a less U.S.-centric and more
international operation. Much of the Internet will be
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... The Internet will become a less U.S.-centric and more
international operation. Much of the Internet will be
operated by commercial concerns on a a profit-making basis,
thereby opening up the Internet ...
... Internet will be
operated by commercial concerns on a a profit-making basis,
thereby opening up the Internet to unrestricted use. The
telephone companies ...
... T1 connections become the norm for the types
of institutions that are now on the Internet. Higher speeds,
including speeds up to a gigabit will become available. At
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... gigabit will become available. At
the same time, I expect to see a vast expansion of the
Internet, reaching into a significant fraction of the schools
and businesses in this country and elsewhere in the world.
Many of these institutions will be connected at 9600 bits ...
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E-mail dominates the Internet, and it's likely to remain the
dominant use of the Internet in the future. Nonetheless, I
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... E-mail dominates the Internet, and it's likely to remain the
dominant use of the Internet in the future. Nonetheless, I
expect to see an exciting array of other applications which
become heavily used and cause a change in the perception of
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... expect to see an exciting array of other applications which
become heavily used and cause a change in the perception of
the Internet as primarily a "mail system." Important
databases ...
... mail system." Important
databases will become available on the Internet, and
applications dependent on those databases will flourish. New
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Security will tighten up on the Internet, but not without
some (more) pain. Host operating systems ...
... routers and various
protocol layers. All of this will decrease the utility of
the Internet in the short run, but lay the groundwork for
broader use eventually. New protocols will emerge which
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The growth of the internet over the years has taken it from
lower speeds to higher speeds, from limited geographical
extent to global presence, from research apparatus to an
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... Network (BARRNet). He formed and now
chairs the California Internet Federation, a forum for
coordinating educational and research networks in California.
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... In addition he is Area Director for Applications in the
Internet Engineering Task Force and a member of the Internet
Engineering Steering Group.
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... Area Director for Applications in the
Internet Engineering Task Force and a member of the Internet
Engineering Steering Group.
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... active in the use of networking for students from
kindergarten through community colleges and has had the Davis
High School on the Internet since 1989. In conjunction with
the City of Davis, UC ...
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I have seen the rapid growth of the Internet into a worldwide
utility, but believe that it is lacking in the types of
applications that could make use of its full potential. I
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... network in
France were following closely the developments of the Arpanet
and then the Internet. However, the first linkage was
established in the early 80's through mail connections. I was
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... IP connection between France and the Internet (actually,
NSFNET) which was first experimented in 1987, and became
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... TCP/IP internetting in Europe. The rapid
growth of the Internet here is indicative both of the
perceived needs and of the future. Researcher from
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... which will enable them to interact more and more closely..
and will pose the networking challenge of realizing a very
large, very powerful Internet.
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... TCP/IP and associated protocols
into SURFnet, the connection of SURFnet to the Internet,
introduction of a X.400 MHS ...
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I ran into the Internet in 1988, and immediately it changed
my perspective on networking. Working for a European service
provider I became a playball tossing up and down between the
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... my view of networking where I can see benifits in OSI as well
as in the Internet protocol suite, and where I want the users
to get the best of both worlds. After years of battle in the
European camp to make people see the benefits of TCP/IP ...
... OSI-addict). Apart from the OSI integration into the
Internet, I have set myself a second, and possibly even
heavier task, and that is to help and move the Internet and
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... Internet, I have set myself a second, and possibly even
heavier task, and that is to help and move the Internet and
it's associated structures like IETF, IRTF ...
... IAB, etc.,
to a more global structure, reflecting the penetration of the
Internet in all its forms outside of North America.
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... Security
Research Group and a member of the Internet Activities Board.
He served on the Secure Systems Study Committee of the
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... TCP/IP retained its
initial lead over OSI, moving internationally as the Internet
expanded, thereby becoming an international protocol suite
and meeting my original needs. I hope that the Internet ...
... Internet
expanded, thereby becoming an international protocol suite
and meeting my original needs. I hope that the Internet can
evolve into a multiprotocol structure that can accommodate
changing networking technologies and can do so with a minimum
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My first exposure to the internet (actually Arpanet) was in
1977 when, as a DARPA contractor, I was provided access. At
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... DARPA
and related activities, and was confined to a relatively
small set of users and sites. The Internet technology was
just in the process of being developed and demonstrated. In
fact, my DARPA ...
... DARPA contract was in relation to the Packet Radio
Network, and the primary motivation for the Internet
technology was to connect the mobile Packet Radio Network to
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... Network to
the long-haul Arpanet. Now, only 13 years later, things have
changed radically. The Internet has grown by several orders
of magnitude in size and connects a much wider community,
including academic, commercial, and government. It has
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The Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in a
simple a manner as possible. Putting together a huge
Internet ...
... Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in a
simple a manner as possible. Putting together a huge
Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to do
routing in a huge internet ...
... Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to do
routing in a huge internet. When you add the real world
requirement of commercial security ...
... OSI deployment within the
Internet infrastructure than elswhere. This has been
rewarding and frustrating. The rewards have come from meeting
and working with some truly bright and energetic people who
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... technical staff, and is now Division Director of the
Communications Division. His current activities include a
continuing involvement with the evolution of the Internet
through the work of the various ISI projects on Gigabit
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... network for the Los
Angeles area, creating prototype implementations of several
of the protocols developed for the Internet community,
including the Simple Mail Transport Protocol, the Domain Name
Service ...
... NCP protocol to the TCP protocol.
Participated in the design of many protocols for the Internet
community.
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... 1968 (respectively) from UCLA, and the Ph.D. in Computer
Science in 1974 from UCLA. Jon is a member of the ACM. Jon
continues to participate in the Internet Activities Board and
serves as the editor of the "Request for Comments" Internet
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... continues to participate in the Internet Activities Board and
serves as the editor of the "Request for Comments" Internet
document series.
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... operating
system for the SDS Sigma-7 computer. Since then the ARPANET
and then the Internet have continued to grow and always
faster than expected. I think three factors contribute to
the success of the Internet ...
... Internet have continued to grow and always
faster than expected. I think three factors contribute to
the success of the Internet: 1) public documentation of the
protocols, 2) free (or cheap) software for the popular
machines, and 3) vendor ...
... update the File
Transfer Protocol. Her current technical interests include:
internet protocols, internet management, technical
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... File
Transfer Protocol. Her current technical interests include:
internet protocols, internet management, technical
researching, writing, and editing, Internet ...
... internet management, technical
researching, writing, and editing, Internet security
policies, X.500 directory services and Telnet ...
... Telnet Options. She
established a new informational series of notes for the
Internet community: FYI (For Your Information) RFCs. FYI
RFCs are documents useful to network users. Their purpose is
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... Arts degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of
Southern California (USC). Ms. Reynolds is the Associate
Editor of the Internet Society News. She is a member of the
California Internet Federation and the American Society of
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... Editor of the Internet Society News. She is a member of the
California Internet Federation and the American Society of
Professional and Executive Women. She is affiliated with Phi
Alpha Theta (Honors Society). She is currently listed in
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It has been interesting thirteen years in my professional
life to participate in the Internet world, from the
transition from the TENEX to TOPs-20 machines in 1979 to
surviving the NCP ...
... consecutive hours without crashing, to watching the cellular
split of the ARPANET into the Milnet and Internet sides, and
surviving the advent. All in all, my most memorable times
are the people who have contributed to the research and
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... surviving the advent. All in all, my most memorable times
are the people who have contributed to the research and
development of the Internet. Lots of hard, intense work,
coupled with creative, exciting fun. As for the future,
there is much discussion ...
... there is much discussion and enthusiasm about the next steps
in the evolution of the Internet. I'm looking forward.
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... various network measurement studies concerning usage and
connectivity of the global Internet.
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Dr. Schwartz is the chair of the recently formed Internet
Research Task Force research group on Resource Discovery and
Directory Service ...
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The growth in connectivity and functionality of the Internet
over the past five years has been phenomenal. Yet, few would
argue that the Internet ...
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over the past five years has been phenomenal. Yet, few would
argue that the Internet is in any sense mature. I believe
what is lacking most are ease of use by a non-expert
populace, and facilities that will allow the Internet ...
... Internet is in any sense mature. I believe
what is lacking most are ease of use by a non-expert
populace, and facilities that will allow the Internet to
continue to grow in usefulness as the network grows much
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... allow people to search for resources of interest in the
Internet; to collaborate with individuals who share their
interests and concerns, according to very flexible criteria
for shared interest relationships; and to move about the
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... interests and concerns, according to very flexible criteria
for shared interest relationships; and to move about the
global Internet, plugging their mobile computers in at any
point, seamlessly and effortlessly configuring their system
to allow them to work at each new site.
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Greg Vaudreuil currently serves as both the Internet
Engineering Steering Group Secretary, and the IETF Manager.
As IESG ...
... IETF Manager.
As IESG Secretary, he is responsible for shepherding Internet
standards track protocols through the standards process. As
IETF Manager, he shares with the IESG ...
... working groups in the IETF. He chairs the Internet Mail
Extensions working group of the IETF ...