Effective protection of data and systems will require the use of secure “walls” to separate network functions and service offerings that are expected to be accessible from those that are not. The network must allow information providers to determine the degree of access that will be permitted to their works. The architecture must allow these walls to be constructed so that controlled access through the walls can be implemented.
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 first: ”First, effective protection of data and systems will require the use of secure ‘walls’ to separate network functions and service offerings that are expected to be accessible from those that are not. The network must allow information providers to determine the degree of access that will be permitted to their works. The architecture must allow these walls to be constructed so that controlled access through the walls can be implemented.”
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