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Issues Confronting Internet
- Bandwidth
- World-wide wait!
- ``Bandwidth (like transitors) will be free.'' (Gilder)
- Fibre and WDM. xDSL, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet.
- Limitations of TCP/IP
- No QoS guarantees
- Address Space exhausted
- Routing Tables Huge
- Domain Name Explosion
- IPv6 (128 bit address, flow labels)
- Network Address Translators and Proxies
- Information Explosion
(Bits
Info
Knowledge
Wisdom!)
- Swamped by Junk
- Spam-mail!
- Indexing and Search Tools
- Intelligent Agents
- Security
- Hackers
- Denial of Service
- Firewalls, Intra/ExtraNets
- Encrytion
- Biometric Authentication
- Legal/International Issues
- Fraud/Impersonation
- Contracts and Liablities
- Who will make standards?
- National Security needs
- Cultural Invasion (Porn)
- Taxes and Revenues?
- Lawyers need some work too!
- Cost
- Accounting is a nightmare
- Analogies like postcard, radio, TV
- Simplistic models
Sridhar Iyer
2001-01-08