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g the "m Él There are still part of the world were the use of Internet has yet
n the aem M 25 pe to grow substantially. These include much of the Asian part of
ement icio 142 Gná S m Russia, parts of the Middle East and those part of South East
© nier Asia and Africa where it has politically repressed or were the
year. infrastructure are still in development. In this area, satellite
; over : connections are really necessary. The absence of Internet from
omain Figure 18: Most used browsers (left) and users operating the life of a country is also a lack for the education of the
systems (left) to access the ISPRS web site. people. Therefore It Is expected a growing demand for satellite
?8 the capacity and links from those parts of the world that may never
'erage
have full access to international fibre such as most of central
Africa. One of the mostly expected explosions is the use of via
y the 4. INTERNET2 AND NGI satellite connection also for residential users, while cable-
code modem is already common, in particular in US.
8 000 As the Internet grows larger and more crowded, government, Many companies are already using the Internet for Sales,
e than scientists, and universities are looking for new ways to send Advertising and Marketing while many web sites are
server information quickly and powerfully. And for the next specialized in on-line marketing (e.g. Ebay, Amazon).
generations, many new technologies and developments inside
Internet world are ready to be launch. In the future common
operation and more interactive applications will be done at
home, using an online computer. Two projects have grown out
of these needs and are already working: Internet2 [Internet2]
and the Next Generation Internet [NGI].
Internet2 is a consortium being led by over 180 universities
working in partnership with high-tech companies and
government to develop and deploy advanced network
applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of
tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership
among academia, industry and government that fostered today's
Internet in its infancy. The primary goals of Internet2 are to: (1)
create a leading edge network capability for the national
rescarch community; (2) enable revolutionary Internet
applications; (3) ensure the rapid transfer of new network
services and applications to the broader Internet community.
Internet2 is not a separate physical network and will not replace
the Internet.
The NGI Program is a government project and has been
successfully completed and Federal agencies. They are
currently coordinating advanced networking research programs
under the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Coordinating Group.
More than a faster Web or e-mail, both new Internets should
develop new and faster technologies to enhance research and
communication, and it is expected that both projects will
eventually improve the current commercial Internet. Moreover
they will enable completely new applications for digital
libraries, virtual laboratories, distance-independent learning and
It is estimated that the Internet will double in size every year
while the WWW will double every 2 months. The World Wide
Web and the e-mail service are the greatest success of the
Internet. The WWW is an example of a system that started
slowly but has grown to huge proportions. For many, it is the
user friendly face of the information available on the Internet
and has been at least partly responsible for the explosive growth
of the Net. The Web, together with the search engines, provides
efficient access to an increasing amount of information. But
create archives of publications and data is not enough: they
must be maintained, updated and managed in a way that users
can easily discover and access.
The rapid growth and interest for the WWW introduced many
innovations but it has embedded or amplified many problems
like security concerns for commercial applications, bandwidth
and server saturation, demand for faster access in particular for
multimedia data, controlling access to certain types of data,
protecting the work of authors (copyright issues), not enough IP
addresses to meet the demands. The Internet has opened the
access to information to everybody and has changed the way
we see the world. But newer and more efficient protocols and
ideas are needed to meet the demands for faster access to
resources and to solve the problems mentioned before.
À part from any future technological development of the Net,
the main source of the Internet remains the people, who use and
contribute to make it always bigger. Everyday more people use
an online computer to find information, learn, educate and
communicate. We have to keep ourselves continuously up-to-
date about all new developments and innovations of the Net to
3 2004 tele-immersion. really exploit all its capabilities and possibilities.
ISPRS is online since 10 years. Many pages have been created
ts per and now there are approximately 2 GB of data available. ISPRS
SPRS 5. CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK will remain inside the e-world, always improving its
appearance. The main board and the web master will
After 35 years of innovation, data transferring and exchanging, continually strive to refine and expand ISPRS online material to
as the will the Internet with its number of hosts and domain still grow? provide always more information and services for its users.
Sand Which kind of operations or interactive application will we do
most with an Internet browser? Since 1969, the Internet has grown
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