Grand Challenges in Networks for the Next 15 Years

jameshowison writes "Some of the researchers responsible for the Internet, including Bob Branden of ISI and David D Clark from MIT, have outlined what they see as the grand challenges for internetworking and computation in the next 10-15 years (PDF). The report from the IRTF's 'End-to-End Research Group' discussed the question, 'How might the computing and communications world be materially different in 10 to 15 years' and how do we get there? From a universal system for location, to small-area networks, to operation in time of crisis, software radio and an agenda to reduce the energy required for communications this document tries to imagine what will be like packet-switching was for the past 15 years."

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Are you sure

[elid]

that this isn't one of those randomly generated MIT papers?

My challenge

[Anonymous Coward]

this document tries to imagine what will be like packet-switching was for the past 15 years.

I'm trying to imagine what this sentence means.. and it might take me 10-15 years.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Already there

[samael]

They claim there isn't an emergency broadcast system - but we have Slashdot! The second anything big goes wrong, there it is!

Advanced interconnectivity for inter-personal comm

[mekkab]

We need to improve interpersonal communication via computer internetworking. And until Punch You In The Face over Ethernet (PYITFoE) is widely available, we will only ever scratch the surface of the rich tapestry of human interaction.

I for one...

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new visionary, low cost, ubiquitous, location aware, trustworthy, special needs supporting, quantum coherence preserving, intelligent, energy-efficient, cyber-world overlords.