Future applications and middleware, and their impact on the infrastructure

  • Authors:
  • Brian E. Carpenter

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems - Special section: Selected papers from the TERENA networking conference 2002
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The Internet today has progressed from being "just a network" through phases as a human communications mechanism and an unrivalled information system to the mere beginning of being a true services network. On the way, it has encountered a series of technical and external challenges that have created some barriers to further development. For the Internet to release its known potential and develop as a resource-sharing computing services platform, these barriers must be torn down.