The Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in a simple a manner as possible. Putting together a huge Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to do routing in a huge Internet. When you add the real world requirement of commercial security and the desire for Ôclasses of serviceÕ we are faced with big challenges. I think this means that we have to get a lot more involved with operational provisioning considerations such as those that the phone companies and credit card firms have wrestled with. Hopefully we can do this and still maintain the rather friendly attitude that Internetters have always had.
Predictor: Lynch, Daniel C.
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 Daniel C. Lynch, IAB Member. Lynch was president and founder of Interop, Inc. (formerly named Advanced Computing Environments) in Mountain View, Calif. since 1985. He writes: ”The Internet has grown because it solves simple problems in a simple a manner as possible. Putting together a huge Internet has not been easy. We still do not know how to do routing in a huge Internet. When you add the real world requirement of commercial security and the desire for Ôclasses of serviceÕ we are faced with big challenges. I think this means that we have to get a lot more involved with operational provisioning considerations such as those that the phone companies and credit card firms have wrestled with. Hopefully we can do this and still maintain the rather friendly attitude that Internetters have always had.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
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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