The prediction, in brief:

I am interested in transition to a world-wide multi-protocol Internet. This requires scaling to several orders of magnitude larger than the current Internet, and also requires a greater emphasis on reliability and ease of use.

Predictor: Callon, Ross

Prediction, in context:

This August 1991 Request For Comment – No. 1251 from the Network Working Group – includes biographies of Internet leaders. The RFC includes information from Ross Callon, Internet Engineering Task Force OSI Integration Area co-director. Callon was a member of the Distributed Systems Architecture staff at Digital Equipment Corporation in Littleton, Mass., and was working on issues related to OSI – TCP/IP interoperation and introduction of OSI in the Internet. He writes:”I am interested in transition to a world-wide multi-protocol Internet. This requires scaling to several orders of magnitude larger than the current Internet, and also requires a greater emphasis on reliability and ease of use.Ó

Date of prediction: January 1, 1991

Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure

Subtopic: Protocols

Name of publication: Requests For Comments

Title, headline, chapter name: RFC1251

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1251.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne