Researchers from universities, non-profit and industrial organizations are eager to communicate; new applications are being developed which will enable them to interact more and more closely … and will pose the networking challenge of realizing a very large, very powerful Internet.
Predictor: Huitema, Christian
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 Christian Huitema, IAB Member. Huitema conducted research in network protocols and network applications and was working at INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, where he led the research project RODEO, whose objective was the definition and the experimentation of communication protocols for very-high-speed networks. He writes: ”Researchers from universities, non-profit and industrial organizations are eager to communicate; new applications are being developed which will enable them to interact more and more closely … and will pose the networking challenge of realizing a very large, very powerful Internet.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
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
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