The Future of the Internet

The US National Science Foundation is about to announce a new research initiative: a challenge to the research community to conceive of what the global network of 10 or 15 years from now should be.  There are a number of motivations to ask such a question - requirements for tomorrow (and today) that the current Internet does not serve very well, including security, availability, industry structure, manageability, and support for tomorrow's computing. Many of these issues are not "technical problems," but requirements that arise in the larger social, economic and regulatory context in which the Internet sits. This calls for a multi-disciplinary conversation about what a Future Internet might be, and how to build it.

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