The future of the Internet

Interested in the future of the Internet?

Check out the following resources:

Internet Society – organization which sets Internet standards

Internet 2 – Organization which leads the construction of a high speed network which currently connects connects two-thirds of college campuses and one-third of U.S. high schools.

Abilene – information on the network backbone that runs the Internet2. Checkout the weathermap which displays the main nodes of the network and the usages between those nodes. Note that the nodes between New York and Chicago are more highly used than the nodes between Seattle and Silicon Valley. Interesting.

IPv6 – the new internet protocol.