Frameworks: The Future at Port 80: Charthouse

By frameworks, I mean the hardware / software rules. The networks and the platforms. The plumbing and the wiring; the software code. Code is law, folks, and this is a very fateful decision.

Each of these frameworks could be a 3-credit graduate course in itself. Each has a shelf full of books at your local brick-and-mortar and a ton of web sites explaining, discussing, evaluating, and selling it.

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past

orally and manually
postal systems
telegraph
telephone
pneumatic
fax
copy machine

future

issues/questions

proprietary vs open

standards

jurisdiction

Who has jurisdiction over transnational activity, whether legitimate or criminal? Who's going to decide?

Former Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle could find himself cuffed if he sets foot on French soil. His alleged crime: Allowing the posting of Nazi collectibles on Yahoo's U.S.-based site--an action Holocaust survivors say violates France's war crimes laws.

In another case, Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was jailed after entering the United States last year. The charges related to providing software that could be used to crack e-books, an action that is not a crime in his homeland but that violates U.S. copyright law, federal authorities say.

These are only two examples of companies and executives that do business online and are being dragged into foreign courts for selling products or posting materials that are legal in their own countries but that offend the sensibilities or violate the laws of another land. Such challenges increasingly include criminal charges. ...

So far, such questions have for the most part gone unanswered. But the legal tangle will surely be unraveled as conflicting laws governing issues such as gambling, obscenity and copyright clash on the borderless Web.

One of the pioneers of the Internet said Monday that government must get involved for speedier connections to the Net to reach the masses.

Vint Cerf said broadband is being stymied by current and proposed policies that allow telephone and cable companies to close their networks and by the issue of protecting copyrighted information online.

"Policy problems are harder to solve, and probably more important than the technology ones," he said in an interview at the Supercomm trade show in Atlanta. "Policy doesn't have a simple answer. Sometimes it has to do with attitude, sometimes it has to do with culture, sometimes it has to do with the legal framework."

The government could invigorate broadband by requiring phone- and cable-company networks to share their networks with Internet service providers at a fair price, said Cerf, who is WorldCom Inc.'s senior vice president for Internet architecture and technology.

Nicolai Lassen considers linking such a fundamental element of the World Wide Web that he sees nothing wrong with creating a service around linking to news articles at more than 3,000 other sites.

Danish publishers, however, equate such linking with stealing - and have gone to court to stop it.

The case, scheduled for hearings in Copenhagen later this month, is among the latest to challenge the Web's basic premise of encouraging the free flow of information through linking.

Requiring permission before linking could jeopardize online journals, search engines and other sites that link - which is to say, just about every site on the Internet. ...

Such disputes reflect "a frustration certain people have with a loss of control" once they post something, said Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa.

code is law

commons

privacy / security

development

control

When huge, nameless, faceless corporations try to impose "linking policies" upon webmasters who want to point to the company's site, people usually react in a predictable way. They get mad, they spitefully put up dozens of policy-violating links, and they bemoan, once more, the fact that some folks still don't understand that if you don't want to be linked you shouldn't be on the Web.

The reaction was much the same on Wednesday, when webloggers discovered that yet another huge organization is trying to lay down rigid linking guidelines -- only this time the huge organization is National Public Radio, the ad-free, member-supported radio network that often paints itself as the antithesis of all things big and corporate. ...

Companies ought to expect that people will link to their site, as it's near impossible, as many have found out, to try to tame the Web through litigation.

A few hours after rescuers dragged her young son's lifeless body from 3-foot-deep water in the San Francisco Bay, the distraught mother tried to explain the drowning.

"He begged me to let him take swimming lessons," she said. "I wouldn't let him, because I was afraid he would drown."

True story.

So is the one about the fine public radio network, National Public Radio, and its silly website policy requiring other websites to obtain permission before linking to content within its site. Said permission, incidentally, could take "a while."

At least the woman's intentions were honorable, if tragic and misguided. NPR? Well, let's just say they should stick to what they know best, which obviously isn't the Internet.

When Robert and Weldon Johnson received the letter, they thought it must be from some friends pulling a prank. After all, it's not everyday they receive stern letters from law firms. But after checking the stationery and the e-mail address, the twin brothers behind the small LetsRun.com Web site realized the letter was real: Runner's World, the 800-pound gorilla of running news, was threatening them with a lawsuit.

Their mistake: Linking directly to a runnersworld.com interview with 800-meter Olympic champion Peter Snell. Instead of linking to the home page, LetsRun.com sent readers directly to the "printer-friendly" version of the article, deep inside the site. They say they did this because runnersworld.com would not archive stories properly, leaving links susceptible to inaccuracy.

Internet2

How much bandwidth will we have?

As of summer 2006, the best a US household can buy is the telephone company's DSL downstream 3 Mbps. The Internet2 backbone gets 10 Gbps or 10,000 Mbps. Are they using a different network? No, they're using fiber that is already in the ground -- through Fiberco using dark fiber from Level 3. In the diagram at right, Gig-E refers to gigabit Ethernet, that is, a local network, not the public Internet.

The 1st prize for the Bandwidth Challenge was awarded to the team from CalTech, Fermi and SLAC for their entry: "Distributed TeraByte Particle Physics Data Sample Analysis", which we measured at a peak of 131.57 Gbps of IP traffic.

Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have calculated the maximum amount of information that can be transmitted over optical fiber, demonstrating that fiber optics technology will result in robust, long-term and scalable communications networks.

The Bell Labs team, whose scientific results appear in today's issue of the science journal Nature, determined that it is theoretically possible to send approximately 100 terabits of information, or roughly 20 billion one-page e-mails, simultaneously per strand of fiber.

As demand for services like high-speed Internet access continues to grow and bandwidth-hungry applications like video-on-demand become increasingly popular, optical fiber will be able to keep up with the demand for these services and those yet to be imagined.

In fibre optic telecommunications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes multiple optical carrier signals on a single optical fibre by using different wavelengths (colours) of laser light to carry different signals. This allows for a multiplication in capacity, in addition to making it possible to perform bidirectional communications over one strand of fibre.

A bundle of optical fibre (right). Theoretically, using advanced techniques such as WDM, the modest number of fibers seen here could have sufficient bandwidth to easily carry the sum of all types of current data transmission needs for the entire planet. (~100 terabits per second per fiber)

When we have this bandwidth, what will be be able to do?

Internet2 application attributes

Interactive collaboration

Real-time access to remote resources

Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining

Shared virtual reality

Any combination of the above

(Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) plans, builds and operates advanced networks for research and education. It is owned by European NRENs (national research and education networks), and works in partnership with them and in cooperation with the European Commission. DANTE provides the data communications infrastructure essential to the development of the global research community.

Say there are only a handful of doctors capable of performing a new procedure. I2 allows them to share their knowledge. In fact, their precise hand movements can be captured by a computer so that students can retrace them as though they are putting on a magic glove.

Paths in the Snow

� Connect the users

� Follow the �paths in the snow�

� New value and business models will follow

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will be the first national ecological measurement and observation system designed both to answer regional- to continental-scale scientific questions and to have the interdisciplinary participation necessary to achieve credible ecological forecasting and prediction. As such, NEON will transform the way we conduct science by enabling the integration of research and education from natural to human systems, and from genomes to the biosphere.

EarthScope is a bold undertaking to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

A shared biomedical IT infrastructure to hasten the derivation of new understanding and treatment of disease through the use of distributed knowledge. Drawing upon the expertise and technologies available at numerous institutions, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is building an infrastructure of networked high-performance computers, data integration standards, and other emerging technologies, to pave the way for medical researchers to transform the treatment of disease.

Cal-(IT)� -- California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

One of four institutes established through the California Institutes for Science and Innovation initiative proposed in the year 2000 by Governor Gray Davis. Cal-(IT)�, a partnership between UC San Diego and UC Irvine, seeks to ensure that California maintains its leadership in the telecommunications and information technology marketplace. The institute�s mission is simple: Extend the reach of the current information infrastructure throughout the physical world to enable anytime/anywhere access. This, complemented by research and development in related information technologies, will help the State provide new capabilities to important market segments poised to be transformed by the new Internet and prototype ways to monitor and manage growth anticipated in the coming years.

Used by governments, corporations and educators to describe the future network and the work underway to develop it. This Internet will be so pervasive, reliable and transparent that we'll all just take it for granted. It will be a seamless part of life--like electricity or plumbing.

To enhance your knowledge of what's on the horizon, we've created a special NGi site. Here you can learn more about advanced technologies, applications and initiatives, which are the cornerstones of the Web to come.

Five years into the NGI initiative, the state of the NGI is mixed: The government seems to have done its part. The IETF and other groups also have made contributions to moving us all beyond the current limitations of the Internet. And two of the United States' premier tech companies seem to be well on the case. But beyond that, there's little to suggest that NGI, per se, is reaching critical mass. Rather, NGI seems to have morphed into a program mostly focused on serving government needs, while the separate but related Internet2 initiative slowly moves NGI-type technologies into the mainstream.

The development of robust and stable ultrascale networking, at 100 Gbps and higher speeds in the wide area, is critical to support the new generation of ultrascale computing and Petabyte to Exabyte datasets that promise to drive discoveries in fundamental and applied sciences of the next decade. Continued advances in computing, communication, and storage technologies, combined with the development of national and global Grid systems, hold the promise of providing the required capacities and an effective environment for computing and science.


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