Unpredictable Certainty

NII 2000 Steering Committee, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 The National Information Infrastructure and the Earth Sciences: Possibilities and Challenges; 3 Government Services Information Infrastructure Management; 4 Cutting the Gordian Knot: Providing the American Public with Advanced Universal Access in a Fully Competitive Marketplace at the Lowest Possible Cost; 5 The Role of Cable Television in the NII; 6 Competing Definitions of 'Openness' on the GII; 7 Communications for People on the Move: A Look into the Future; 8 Building the NII: Will the Shareholders Come? (And if They Don't, Will Anyone Really Care?); 9 The Electronic Universe: Network Delivery of Data, Science, and Discovery; 10 An SDTV Decoder with HDTV Capability: An All-Format ATV Decoder; 11 NII and Intelligent Transport Systems; 12 Post-NSFNET Statistics Collection; 13 NII Road Map: Residential Broadband; 14 The NII in the Home: A Consumer Service; 15 Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments; 16 Electric Utilities and the NII: Issues and Opportunities; 17 Interoperation, Open Interfaces, and Protocol Architecture; 18 Service Provider Interoperability and the National Information Infrastructure; 19 Funding the National Information Infrastructure: Advertising, Subscription, and Usage Charges; 20 The NII in the Home; 21 The Evolution of the Analog Set-Top Terminal to a Digital Interactive Home Communications Terminal; 22 Spread ALOHA Wireless Multiple Access: The Low-Cost Way for Ubiquitous, Tetherless Access to the Information Infrastructure; 23 Plans for Ubiquitous Broadband Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Ameritech Region; 24 How Do Traditional Legal, Commercial, Social, and Political Structures, When Confronted with a New Service, React and Interact?; 25 The Internet, the World Wide Web, and Open Information Services: How to Build the Global Information Infrastructure; 26 Organizing the Issues; 27 The Argument for Universal Access to the Health Care Information Infrastructure: The Particular Needs of Rural Areas, the Poor, and the Underserved; 28 Toward a National Data Network: Architectural Issues and the Role of Government; 29 Statement on National Information Infrastucture Issues; 30 Proposal for an Evaluation of Health Care Applications on the NII; 31 The Internet - A Model: Thoughts on the Five Year Outlook; 32 The Economics of Layered Networks; 33 The Fiber-Optic Challenge of Information Infrastructure; 34 Cable Television Technology Deployment; 35 Privacy, Access and Equity, Democracy, and Networked Interactive Media; 36 As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII; 37 The Use of the Social Security Number as the Basis for a National Citizen Identifier; 38 Estimating the Costs of Telecommunications Regulation; 39 Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability; 40 The National Information Infrastructure: A High Performance Computing and Communications Perspective; 41 Nomadic Computing and Communications; 42 NII 2000: The Wireless Perspective; 43 Small Manufacturing Enterprises and the National Information Infrastructure; 44 Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management; 45 Aspects of Integrity in the NII; 46 What the NII Could Be: A User Perspective; 47 Role of the PC in Emerging Information Infrastructures; 48 NII Evolution - Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective; 49 Enabling Petabyte Computing; 50 Private Investment and Federal National Information Infrastructure Policy; 51 Thoughts on Security and the NII; 52 Trends in Deployments of New Telecommunications Services by Local Exchange Carriers in Support of an Advanced National Information Infrastructure; 53 The Future NII/GII: Views of Interexchange Carriers; 54 Technology in the Local Network; 55 Recognizing What the NII Is, What It Needs, and How to Get It; 56 Electronic Integrated Product Development as Enabled by a Global Information Environment: A Requirement for Success in the Twenty-first Century; 57 Interoperability, Standards, and Security: Will the NII Be Based on Market Principles?; 58 Technology and Cost Models for Connecting K-12 Schools to the National Information Infrastructure; 59 Geodata Interoperability: A Key NII Requirement; 60 Electronic Commerce; 61 Prospects and Prerequisites for Local Telecommunications Competition: Public Policy Issues for the NII; 62 The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV - Which Is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network?; 63 Effective Information Transfer for Health Care: Quality versus Quantity; 64 Integrating Technology with Practice: A Technology-enhanced, Field-based Teacher Preparation Program; 65 RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories; 66 Electronic Document Interchange and Distribution Based on the Portable Document Format, an Open Interchange Format