Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Realizing the Information Future""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary and Recommendations""; ""COMMITTEE AND IT'S TASKS""; ""THE VISION OF AN OPEN DATA NETWORK""; ""DEVELOPING AN OPEN DATA NETWORK ARCHITECTURE""; ""Configuring the Components""; ""Defining NII Compliance and Setting Standards""; ""Factoring in the International Aspect""; ""DEPLOYING THE OPEN DATA NETWORK""; ""Research and Education Concerns""; ""Infrastructure Financing: Investments for Research and Education""; ""THE GOVERNMENT ROLE""; ""Long-term Strategy, Management, and Wise Investment""
  • ""Leadership in Education""""Technology Research and Development""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""The Vision of an Open Data Network""; ""RECOMMENDATION 1: Leadership and Guidance""; ""RECOMMENDATION 2: Technology Deployment""; ""RECOMMENDATION 3: Transitional Support""; ""RECOMMENDATION 4: K-12 Education""; ""RECOMMENDATION 5: Network Research""; ""1 U.S. Networking: The Past Is Prologue""; ""WHERE WE ARE TODAY""; ""Existing Communications Networks and Increasing Focus on Infrastructure""; ""How We Got Here""; ""Today in Transition""; ""VISIONS OF THE INFORMATION FUTURE WHAT MIGHT IT BE?""
  • ""The Internet-based Vision""""The Entertainment-based Vision""; ""The Clinton-Gore Administration's Vision""; ""Possible Scenarios for Development of a National Information Infrastructure""; ""The Committee's Vision: An Integrated National Information Infrastructure""; ""CONVERGING THE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE""; ""Technology Impetus""; ""Benefits to the Nationâ€?Last-mile Economics""; ""How Can We Converge the Visions?""; ""STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THIS REPORT""; ""NOTES""; ""2 The Open Data Network: Achieving the Vision of an Integrated National Information Infrastructure""
  • ""THE OPEN DATA NETWORK""""Criteria for an Open Data Network""; ""Technical, Operational, and Organizational Objectives""; ""Benefits of an Open Data Network""; ""OPEN DATA NETWORK ARCHITECTURE""; ""An Architectural Proposal in Four Layers""; ""The Centrality of the Bearer Service""; ""Characterizing the Bearer Service""; ""Middleware: A New Set of Network Services""; ""Defining the Higher-level Services""; ""Basic Higher-level Services""; ""More Demanding Higher-level Services""; ""QUALITY OF SERVICE: OPTIONS FOR THE ODN BEARER SERVICE""; ""Best-Effort and Reserved Bandwidth Service""
  • ""Assuring the Service""""NII COMPLIANCE""; ""STANDARDS""; ""Role of Network Standards""; ""Factors That Complicate Setting Standards""; ""Network Function Has Moved Outside the Network""; ""It Is Hard to Set Standards Without a Recognized Mandate""; ""A Bottom-up Process Cannot Easily Set Long-term Direction""; ""A Top-down Approach No Longer Appears Workable""; ""Commercial Forces May Distort the Standards-Setting Process""; ""Setting Standards for the NIIâ€?Planning for Change Is Difficult But Necessary""; ""ISSUES OF SCALE IN THE NII""; ""Addressing and Naming""