To yield the greatest economic and social returns, an Open Data Network should be open to all users, open to all service providers, open to all network providers, and open to change. This vision would blend features and benefits demonstrated by the Internet with others advanced or contemplated by the entertainment, telecommunications and cable television industries.
Predictor: Kleinrock, Leonard
Prediction, in context:In a May 26, 1994, statement before the House Subcommittee on Technology, Environment and Aviation, Leonard Kleinrock says his NRENaissance Committee of the National Research Council has concluded that an “Open Data Network” would allow users to achieve “interoperability” through different forms of technology, including voice, data, and video. Kleinrock testifies: ”The NRENaissance Committee has advanced a vision of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) as one of a data network with open and evolvable interfaces, a concept that can embrace virtually all modes of information generation, transport and use. To yield the greatest economic and social returns, an Open Data Network should be open to all users, open to all service providers, open to all network providers, and open to change. This vision would blend features and benefits demonstrated by the Internet with others advanced or contemplated by the entertainment, telecommunications and cable television industries … The specific architecture proposed for the Open Data Network organizes the interfaces into a model with four layers, each of which defines in an isolated way a key service aspect of the NII. The value of our architecture is that it provides an organizing principle to address the problems of interoperation. The essence of our technical proposal is a characterization of how interoperability can be achieved through architecture and interfaces. This approach allows for a wire variety of organizations and individuals to contribute to the Open Data Network using a wide variety of technologies … Specifically, this open architecture makes it possible for information services of all kinds to be provided from suppliers of all kinds to customers of all kinds across network service providers of all kinds in a seamless, accessible fashion.”
Biography:Leonard Kleinrock published the first paper on packet-switching theory in the RLE Quarterly Progress Report while at MIT in 1961. He established the Network Measurement Center at UCLA and worked in the area of digital networks. He also published a comprehensive look at digital networks in his book “Communication Nets.” He developed the ARPANET network with Lawrence Roberts. In 1969, Kleinrock’s NMC team connected an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an Interface Messenger Processor, creating the first node on the ARPANET, the first computer to connect to the Internet. Kleinrock’s team used the early system to iron out the initial design and performance issues on the world’s first packet-switched network. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: May 26, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Open Access
Name of publication: Federal News Service
Title, headline, chapter name: Prepared Statement of Leonard Kleinrock, Chairman of the NRENaissance Committee, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Technology, Environment and Aviation
Quote Type: Direct quote
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Section: In the News
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