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The Internet

The Internet

See Definition of Internet

• Robert Cannon, Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up: A Quest to Define the Internet  TPRC 2002
• Cerf's Up (website of Vint Cerf)
• Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The Internet's Coming of Age 2001
• The Digital Dilemma : Intellectual Property in the Information Age (Nat'L Research Council Editor 2000) Appendix: C Networks: How the Internet Works
• Zen and the Art of the Internet A Beginner's Guide to the Internet, First Edition, January 1992
• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything..., Texinfo Edition 1.02, September 1993 by Adam Gaffin with Jörg Heitkötter Copy 2 | Copy 3 |
• D. D. Clark, The Design  Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, Proc. ACM Sigcomm 1988, Stanford, CA, August, 1988. {Abstract, PDF}
• Matrix, How the Internet works, John Quaterman and Peter Salas
• Learn The Net (includes animated explanation of the Internet)
• How Stuff Works How Internet Infrastructure Works
• Living Internet

• Paper I. GLENN COHEN, JONATHAN H. BLAVINGore, Gibson, and Goldsmith: The Evolution of Internet Metaphors in Law and Commentary, SSRN 1/13/2004
• Internet or Web? There's a difference, CNN 8/12/03

Hourglass

• Watching the Waste of the Internet Protocol Hourglass, Steve Deering, IETF Aug 2001 (pdf)
• Internet Coming of Age, p. 36 National Academies (2001)

Papers

• Shvetima Gulati, The Internet Protocol, ACM Crossroads, July 2000
• Mark Handley, On Inter Layer Assumptions, IAB
• Peter Denning, The ARPANet after Twenty Years, DOD (1989)

Internet Protocol

• TCP/IP Frequently Asked Questions
• H. Gilbertm Introduction to TCP/IP Yale
• Tony Rybczynski, Nortel Networks, Future of Packet Switching, Communications Solutions Magazine (October 2001)
• Microsoft TechNet How TCP/IP Works

Future Internet Design (FIND)

• Future Internet Design
• US NSF Program to look at what our global network should be in 15 years
• " FIND (Future Internet Design) is a major new long-term initiative of the NSF NeTS research program. FIND invites the research community to consider what the requirements should be for a global network of 15 years from now, and how we could build such a network if we are not constrained by the current Internet -- if we could design it from scratch. "

News

• The Future of the Internet IV, Pew 2/25/2010
• Pew Research Center Releases New Report on Future of the Internet, EPIC 2/22/2010
• The Internet at 40, Globe and Mail 9/1/2009
• Happy birthday Internet, welcome to your mid-life crisis, Globe and Mail 9/1/2009
• Everyone should know the history of the Internet, Michael Kaiser 9/1/2009
• Bletchley Park given repair funds, BBC 3/26/2010
• 40 Years Later, Internet's Co-Creator Pushing Ahead, Internet News 10/29/2009
• Who are the next Lickliders?, OSTP 9/29/2009
• Internet Mapping Project, IMP 6/5/2009
• Steve Crocker on the 40th Anniversary of RFC #1, CircleID 4/7/2009
• Realistic Topology Modeling for the Internet BGP Infrastructure, CAIDA 3/24/2009
• NASA successfully tests deep space Internet, CW 11/20/2008
• Internet Pioneer Paul Baran Awarded National Medals of Technology and Innovation, CircleID 9/30/2008
• The Sky Is Not Falling, It's the Limit, IIA 4/10/2008
• Internet Hitting Full Capacity by 2010?, CircleID 4/21/2008
• AT&T Lobbyist Predicts Doom & Gloom, Clogged Internet By 2010, Techdirt 4/21/2008
• AT&T Still Predicts 2010 Internet Demise - But don't worry, they're spending a lot of money to keep you safe, dslreports 4/18/2008
• The Internet's 'Black Holes' - University of Washington studies the Internet's dark corners...., dslreports 4/10/2008
• Overloading the Internet? Recent Media Reports Based on Dangerous Misinformation, CircleID 4/10/2008
• U.S. Government to Spend Up To US$10M on Internet Redesign, aka GENI, CircleID 5/25/2007
• Internet pioneer to oversee its redesign, Globe and Mail 5/22/2007
• Is it time to scrap the internet?, Mail & Gaurdian 4/18/2007
• Private incentives and public networks, TIR 4/18/2007
• NSF/OECD Workshop "Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet", Washington D.C., OECD 2/6/2007