Communications of the ACM articles from August 1994

Communications of the ACM archives from August 1994

The global diffusion of the Internet: patterns and problems. (includes related article) (International Perspectives)(Special Issue: Internet Technology) (Column)
August 1, 1994... If the Internet were a stock it would be considered a market phenomenon, with sustained double-digit growth and no apparent end in sight to the upward spiral. Recent Internet numbers are stunning. Between January 1993 and January 1994, the number...

Tracking long-term growth of the NSFNET. (National Science Foundation Network)(includes related articles) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... While conceived initially as a demonstration project of a then-new networking technology for the U.S. federal government, today's Internet aggregates traffic from a far wider set of constituencies. As the number of client networks of the Internet...

Practical considerations for network addressing using CIDR. (classless inter-domain routing)(includes related article) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... During the last few years the TCP/IP protocol suite has seen a rapidly increasing use. It has always been reasonably easy for all organizations using this protocol suite to be assigned globally unique addresses. In fact, organizations have up...

MBone: the multicast backbone. (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... The first thing many researchers like me do when they come to work is read their email. The second thing on my list is to check what is on the MBone--the Multicast Backbone, which is a virtual network on "top" of the Internet providing a...

Multicast routing extensions for OSPF. (Open Shortest Path First protocol)(includes related article on OSPF routing) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... OSPF, a TCP/IP link state routing protocol, recently has been enhanced to allow the routing of IP multicast datagrams. The resulting protocol, capable of routing both unicast and multicast traffic, has been called the Multicast Extensions for...

VIP: a protocol providing host mobility. (Virtual Internet Protocol) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... Computer networks such as the Internet have spread worldwide. Computers are getting smaller and smaller. Such an environment allows users to carry portable computers and use them to access networks. "Mobile Computing" has become a buzzword in the...

The world-wide web. (includes glossary of terms) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... The World-Wide Web (W3) was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project. Physicists and engineers at CERN, the European Particle Physics...

Interactive design of seamless collaboration media. (includes glossary of terms) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) emerged in the mid-1980s as an identifiable interdisciplinary research field focused on the role of computer and communication technology to support group work [1, 9-11, 13]. CSCW examines how people...

Scalable Internet resource discovery: research problems and approaches. (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... In its roots as the ARPANET, the Internet was conceived primarily as a means of remote login and experimentation with data communication protocols. However, the predominant usage quickly became email in support of collaboration. This trend...

Crypto policy perspectives. (includes related article) (Special Issue: Internet Technology)
August 1, 1994... On April 16, 1993 the White House announced the Escrowed Encryption Initiative, "a voluntary program to improve security and privacy of telephone communications while meeting the legitimate needs of law enforcement." The initiative included a...