The evolving internet: Applications and network service infrastructure
Clifford A. Lynch · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1998
This article has three goals. It begins by reviewing the current state of the Internet as a data transport system and some of its emerging problems. Then it discusses two major research initiatives—Internet 2 and the Next Generation Internet (NGI) program—and some of the new network-level services that may first see substantial deployment in these new research testbeds. The article concludes with a few speculations about future changes to the Internet as a data transport system. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.