Network World Columns

1997

·       1997-01-06: Who says who makes the rules? (p 26)

The Internet Society and additional top level domains

·       1997-01-13: Was Bob a year too early? (p 24)

The traffic load on the Internet

·       1997-01-20: Knowing what map to use (p 32)

Internet via cable modem

·       1997-01-27: But will they pay attention this time? (p 32)

Firewalls as insecurity

·       1997-02-03: Do we have your number? (p 34)

IP address assignment and ARIN

·       1997-02-10: If governments act appropriately (p 28)

The US government's "Framework for Electronic Commerce"

·       1997-02-17: In loco parentis (p 22)

Corporations trying to protect their employees

·       1997-02-24: Is on-line discussion democracy?

Mailing list democracy

·       1997-03-03: The end of ethics!? (p 32)

The Internet as the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics

·       1997-03-10: Illusionary advantages (p 32)

Faster download are bad

·       1997-03-17: Is a NC more than PC? (p 34)

Do network computers make any sense?

·       1997-03-24: Old laws in new venues? (p 42)

The Internet makes it harder to apply existing laws

·       1997-03-31: Well produced confusion (p 36)

Review of Business Communications Review

·       1997-04-07: Permission to whisper in the field, sir? (p 32)

Legal threats to privacy on the Internet

·       1997-04-14: The parent revolution (p 40)

The Internet as the parent revolution

·       1997-04-21: Do ATM switches dream of gigabit Ethernets? (p 32)

Gigabit Ethernet is looking real

·       1997-04-28: How important is fast? (p 42)

Should the government be funding research in more than network speed?

·       1997-05-05: An Internet logic brownout (p 64)

The reactions to an Internet routing problem

·       1997-05-12: Oh say can't you see (p 37)

Problems with blocking good encryption

·       1997-05-19: Responsibilities of the creators (p 33)

IBM's Deep Blue chess playing computer

·       1997-05-26: Religious conversions? (p 40)

Testing routing latencies

·       1997-06-02: Assumptions of video needs (p 47)

How useful is videoconferencing?

·       1997-06-09: An evil empire returns? (p 42)

Pricing fiber to the home

·       1997-06-16: Flavors of universal access (p 36)

Universal service fund paying for Internet as well as telephones

·       1997-06-23: Who is wearing the blinkers? (p 49)

What will be ATM's role in the future?

·       1997-06-30: Talking can help (p 37)

Big ISPs talking to each other

·       1997-07-07: Close by from far away (p 40)

Internet Society developing country workshop in Kuala Lumpur

·       1997-07-14: Reflections on Independence Day (p 36)

Good news on legal protections for privacy the Internet

·       1997-07-21: Making the world safe for dollars (p 38)

Dueling Internet-related documents from Europe & the US

·       1997-07-28: If we could only get rid of the people (p 35)

Humans as an Internet failure root cause

·       1997-08-04: Oh modem, where is thy sting?  (p 41)

Phone companies making money on 2nd phone lines

·       1997-08-11: Building connectivity (p 32)

Taiwan's Internet connectivity plans

·       1997-08-18: False idol? (p 44)

The uselessness of fast token ring

·       1997-08-25: Misleading with the IETF (p 25)

Not all IETF RFCs are standards

·       1997-09-01: Virtual reality and the cost of the Internet (p 38)

Silly ideas about Internet pricing

·       1997-09-08: Death from a lack of privacy (p 35)

The US government's war against Internet privacy

·       1997-09-15: Hooded Freedom (p 32)

Over protecting freedom

·       1997-09-22: Thinking outside of a box (p 37)

ATM as a confining idea 

·       1997-09-29: A distorted economy (p 65)

Is convergence inevitable?

·       1997-10-06: Ballad of a not so thin man (p 44)

Regulation as an assumed solution

·       1997-10-13: Hype and reality in Atlanta (p 44)

Reflections on Networld + Interop

·       1997-10-20: The Internet as the cause (p 45)

Blaming the Internet

·       1997-10-27: A substantive difference (p 48)

The change in IBM

·       1997-11-03: Who are you anyway? (p 47)

How do you know the qualifications of Internet writers?

·       1997-11-10: The problem with findability (p 48)

XML as a way to publish prices

·       1997-11-17: IP under all? (p 41)

Just because you can run something over IP should you?

·       1997-11-24: Another Internet strategy (p 45)

China's Internet strategy

·       1997-12-01: Prognostication as a business (p 40)

Wildly optimistic technology predictions

·       1997-12-08: Like regulating acid rain (p 38)

Internet regulation can not be local

·       1997-12-15: Sometimes dumber is better (p  21)

Residential gateways should not try to do too much