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."

Comments

The Devil is in the Details

[suso]

Appearently, using HTML for documents is still a major challenge.

It only takes one person or company to implement things wrong, break protocol and then you have a mess. That is the grand challenge.

Are you sure

[elid]

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

Ubiquitous, seamless, personalized spam

[Animats]

The major Internet applications, by volume, are spam, piracy, and advertising. This trend will continue. By 2020, 98% of all Internet traffic will be illegal in some way.

IPv6

[Anonymous Coward]

The biggest challenge will be moving the entire internet onto IPv6