The network itself must provide the reliability (availability) that is critical to the delivery of any higher-level service. Today, users view the Internet as reasonably stable, but it is known that it can be seriously disrupted by abuse from an end node, either by gross flooding of the network with traffic or by the injecting of false control packets that disrupt the internal state of the network, for example, the routing tables.
Predictor: National Research Council
Prediction, in context:In 1994, the NRENaissance Committee, appointed by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, produced a special report titled “Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond.” Among the committee members were Internet pioneers Leonard Kleinrock, David Clark, David Farber, Lawrence Landweber and Robert Kahn. The committee’s goal was to “study issues raised by the shift to a larger, more truly national networking capability.” Among its statements about the blossoming of the National Information Infrastructure (NII), it identifies three major security issues; this is the third: ”Third, the network itself must provide the reliability (availability) that is critical to the delivery of any higher-level service. Today, users view the Internet as reasonably stable, but it is known that it can be seriously disrupted by abuse from an end node, either by gross flooding of the network with traffic or by the injecting of false control packets that disrupt the internal state of the network, for example, the routing tables.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Security and the Open Data Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/rtif/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney