The Internet and the telephone naming systems’ simultaneous arrival at a crisis suggests that perhaps a common solution can be developed … Developing suitable name spaces for these entities involves issues of scale, longevity, and mobility.
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 says: ”The Internet and the telephone naming systems’ simultaneous arrival at a crisis suggests that perhaps a common solution can be developed … Developing suitable name spaces for these entities involves issues of scale, longevity, and mobility. User names, for example, should be location independent (more like unique identifiers than locators), which in turn implies a substantial location service that translates names into current locations. The current services in the Internet lack a suitable naming system for users. One of the most user-friendly actions the NII community could take would be to rectify this situation.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Issues of Scale in the National Information Infrastructure
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/rtif/
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