The Global Internet
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Lawrence H. Landweber
University of Wisconsin - Madison
E-mail: landweber@cs.wisc.edu
Internet society
Internet society - support and promote the development and spread of the internet throughout the world.
- 4000 individual members
- 85 industrial members
IP Internet Hosts
Programs
- Standarts/Technical - IETF/IESG/IAB
- Education/Meetings
- INET
- Training Workshops
- Information - WWW
- Service - address space coordination
Internet Apps - NSFNET Backbone
- Fastest growing - World Wide Web
- Messages per month - 700 million
- Percentage of traffic (decreasing order):
- - file exchange
- - messaging and news
- - WWW, gopher, mbone
- - name searches
- - interactive
- - non tcp/ip
Terabytes Per Month - NSFNET
Regional Cooperation
- Scandinavia (Nordunet)
- Europe (RIPE, RARE)
- Baltic States (BALTNET)
- Caribbean (CUNET)
- Latin America
- Southern Africa - South Africa
- East Africa - France
- Middle East (soon)
Entities Connected
What is the National Information Infrastructure?
A nationwide system that will allow all Americans to take advantage of our rich resources in information, communication and computing technologies.
It will integrate four elements - communications networks, computers, information and people to create a whole new way of learning, working and interacting with others.
NII Operational Goals
- Ubiquitous, with universal accessibility for homes, businesses, and organizations
- Digital and broadband, able to support a wide range of integrated voice, data and video applications
- Based on openly developed, interoperable standards
- Containing adequate protections for individual rights
- Market driven, with products and services primarily from the private sector
Likely Transitions in Internet Environment 1994 - 2000
- 20 million to 100 million growth in user base
- From physical T3 backbones to gigabit ATM
- From 90% research/education use to 90% commercial use
- From monopoly providers to multiple, competitive providers
- From central funding model to distributed funding model
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