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This article focuses on the efforts of Asian companies to promote adoption of the next-generation Internet Protocol (IP) called IPv6. The IPv4, limits the Internet to approximately 4 billion unique addresses. Because U.S. companies control the majority of those addresses, there has been no hurry to deploy IPv6 in the U.S. By contrast, however, Asian companies, backed by government investments and mandates, have been aggressively rolling out IPv6. But more than balancing supply and demand, Asian governments and companies also see IPv6 as a business opportunity, an opportunity to innovate and leapfrog the rest of the world. By making it easier to assign Internet addresses to devices and services, IPv6 could accelerate adoption of new applications such as third generation mobile services, gaming, smart consumer appliances, smart sensors, home automation and voice over IP. That potential for innovation may prove to be the biggest driver for IPv6 adoption in the U.S., as Asian IPv6-enabled products make their way westward. The biggest advantage of IPv6 global addressing will be its capability of facilitating applications that require fast, plug-and-play connections among peer devices on the edge of the network. INSETS: Where Are We Now?;VoIp and IPv6: A Perfect Pair.

Discusses issues concerning the addition of blockers, spammers and services like Verisign's SiteFinder on the Internet. Problems caused by SiteFinder according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; Arguments against adding intelligence on the Internet; Concerns over the deployment of Internet protocols. INSETS: How to Cut Network Interference;Who Runs the Internet Anyway?.

Reports on the emergence of Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) and the open-source eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) from the Internet Engineering Task Force. Challenge of stitching availability awareness into a variety of systems; Capabilities of SIMPLE; Advantages of XMPP.

AS THE INDUSTRY coos over XML's potential as the data interchange mechanism for e-commerce, XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), may be overlooked, even though it could prove a valuable asset in […]

Protocol to deliver Internet apps to multiple devices AKAMAI AND Network Appliance are spearheading development of the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP), which would enable the delivery of customized Web […]

Scaling problems associated with sending video and other traffic across IP networks could be solved through a new proposal that would overcome the limitations of existing IP Multicast technologies. The […]

The Internet is filled with phone and e-mail directories. Most are pathetically inaccurate. As a test, I looked up my name and address using three leading Web directories. Lycos' WhoWhere […]

Definition IPv6: The next generation of the dominant networking protocol. This upgrade from IPv4 will include improvements such as simplified routing and increased address space to better support business computing. […]

The explosion of IP-based services may hasten the need for a controversial new version of IP that could create headaches for service providers and enterprises. Observers say the advent of […]

The Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) Forum has published the first version of a wireless communication specification, which it hopes will accelerate the use of cellular phones and other wireless devices […]

Now that http:// is not only ubiquitous but hip, the World Wide Web's HTTP accounts for 70 percent of Internet traffic. Sure, be grateful for this Internet plumbing that downloads […]

Even as vendors gather to discuss the next version of the protocol that has been expected to be the key to popularizing Internet commerce, Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) has yet […]

Oracle Corp. has thrown its weight behind the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) and its key endorser, Netscape Communications Corp., in the battle with Microsoft Corp. over Web-based object protocols. Saying […]

As HTTP becomes ubiquitous as the protocol for the Internet and intranets, industry leaders are already talking about replacing it. Netscape Communications Corp. Chief Technology Officer Marc Andreessen last month […]

MCI Communications Corp. last week announced an initiative to beef up its Internet service with faster network speeds, new consumer offerings, ISDN support, and a new unit to spearhead these […]

Microsoft Corp., in conjunction with 3Com Corp., has developed a protocol that will allow IS sites to extend virtual private networks across dial-up lines. Microsoft's Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol […]

Watching TV doesn't mean you know about the National Television Systems Committee (NTSC). Call me a networking nerd, but I'm really curious about how the NTSC got old black-and-white TVs […]

Netscape Communications Corp. has released on the Internet a reference implementation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a protocol that encrypts data between client and server. It is available free to […]

We'd like to introduce the newest member of our team, Steve Irvin. We've always maintained that when it comes to the unexplored issues we tackle, you learn best from making […]

Novell Inc. will offer a solution with NetWare 4.1 in May to improve routing Internet Packet Exchange (IPX) traffic over WANs. But users will have to wait until later this […]

Every time I talk about commercializing the Internet, I get waves of outraged leftist E-mail from various tax-supported enclaves across America. It's great -- I've become the Rush Lim-baugh of […]

Perhaps you have stayed away from the TCP/IP-based Internet because it's mostly for academics and Unix. Perhaps TCP/IP sounds to you like an admission of damning drug test results. But […]

Emphasizes the importance of quality of service (QoS) in Internet-based businesses. Difficulty in taking charge of QoS; Advantages of the Internet Protocol IPv6 to QoS; How to maximize the effectiveness of QoS.

Focuses on a team of engineers' plan to submit the Simple Multicast proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force. Goal of overcoming the limitations of Internet Protocol Multicast technologies; Reduction of Web congestion; Opportunity for streaming multimedia applications to break through to mainstream use on the Internet.

The article reflects on voice recognition software. I could never convinced myself to make dictation part of my routine working life but with each generation of hardware and with each version of the program, the gap between desire and reality has narrowed. For me, typing remains the most efficient way to produce error-free copy. Because recognition accuracy is such a difficult problem, dictation software has to pay very close attention to me. It has to learn everything it can about my speech pattens, vocabulary and writing style. Perhaps because people imagine that other application domains are not as challenging, other programs pay strikingly little attention that the people do. When I organize my E-mail or conduct research on the Web, I exhibit predictable pattens of behavior. People have long expected but rarely experienced personal productivity software that absorbs those patterns, automated repetitive chores and can be taught to improve its performance. Thin-client rich Internet applications cannot easily collect or exploit interaction data, with open protocols and plenty of bandwidth, anything is possible. Intelligent assistance in its most intimate form will initially be delivered on the desktop and will be closely bound to it.

This article presents the opinion of the author on issues relating to the Internet. It is not often that the songs of the '80s hair metal bands intersect with information technology management, but our recent foray into setting up an open source Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) server at InfoWorld to deliver mail to the executive team's Treos had me singing a couple of lines from an early '80s Motley Crue hit. After we set up the server, we did in fact have something to show, but we encountered another unexpected problem that did leave us with no simple solution. The Cyrus IMAP server delivered electronic mail to the Treos flawlessly, but new trouble began when Kevin McKean tried to check his new IMAP account using Outlook 2002. His client would successfully log in but was unable to find any new messages. After digging through mailing lists and newsgroups, I made a startling discovery while I was too fast for Outlook. In the end, I was not so sure. Once again, I had entered a maze of open standards issues while trying to accomplish something that seemed ridiculously simple on the surface, which is to get electronic mail with Outlook via IMAP. I Knew McKean was going to want to use Outlook and I also knew that Outlook supported IMAP. so I was not particularly worried.

In fiscal 2004-2005, IBM will introduce a series of products that will solidify its enterprise service bus (ESB) strategy. The technologies will closely integrate the company's messaging protocols with its high-level integration tools to form a single infrastructure. This convergence is an attempt to reconcile into a single infrastructure all the low-level messaging protocols, such as Java Message Service (JMS), MQ, Internet Inter-Object Request Broker Protocol. Another step is to converge key application integration tools such as message transformation and business process management into what they refer to as WebSphere Business Integration version 6.0. This notion of an ESB connecting to a service-oriented architecture is very important because there is a plethora of standards and protocols that would be part of a real enterprise messaging system. IBM has been shipping products that developers use to build their own ESB, such as WebSphere Business Integration Broker, Event Broker, the Interchange Server it acquired from CrossWorlds, and Business Integration Workbench. The company has also integrated a number of messaging technologies into WebSphere such as JMS, and support for SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL.

Evaluates the E5780 High Definition Encoder and the TT1280 High Definition Decoder from Tandberg Television. Significant features of high-definition television technology; Key settings for Tandberg Television's video-over-Internet protocol devices.

Features the NetWare 6.5 bundled software from Novell. Capabilities of the Nterprise Branch Office property of NetWare 6.5; Importance of the Internet small computer systems interface aspect of NetWare; Information on the process of installing NetWare 6.5.

Evaluates the IP5000, an Internet Protocol-Storage Area Network solution from Intransa Inc. Key features; Information on how the product can be installed; Advantages of the IP5000 StorControl management tools.

Focuses on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) which is an Internet standard designed to facilitate call setup and control. Information on computer telephony integration; Suggestions to improve SIP. INSET: THE BOTTOM LINE.

Focuses on Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), a protocol designed to add interoperability and collaborative capabilities to the Internet. Features of WebDAV; Potential applications; Companies using the WebDAV functionality.

Unveils the Nortel Networks' plan to provide a directory interface, to be based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), helping administrators unify log-ins and user accounts for converged voice/data networks. How integrated voice and data transmission over Internet protocol (IP) networks viewed; Remarks from Nortel's Albert J. DeLorenzi on the issue; Information on the interface; Schedule of Nortel's announcement on shipments of integrated voice/data systems for businesses. INSET: Hybrid of ATM and IP Merger Predicted.

Reports on the launching of the Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) during the first week of July 1999. Members and aim of IPv6 Forum; Statement from the group's honorary chairman, Vinton Cerf; Benefits of IPv6; Vendors that have begun preparations to support IPv6 in hardware.

Reports on the Internet Engineering Task Force's plan to set up a working group to develop two protocols supporting Internet protocol telephony. Plans to develop a call-processing syntax; Plans for the Gateway Attribution Distribution Protocol.

Reports on the publication of a pre-beta version of the proposed protocol by a subcommittee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). First step towards a standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP); Implementations of the protocol in products; Microsoft Corp.'s intention to include a client/server-based implementation of the IPP code in Windows NT 5.0.

Comment on the multiple competing interests regarding Internet interfaces. Concern on the growing number of networks on the Internet; Proposals for a quasi-management standard for the World Wide Web; Development of Internet network-management protocols.

Reports that Netscape Communications Corp. and other vendors are preparing a united front on a set of calendaring protocols that will be submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force. Schedule of the Internet Calendaring Summit; Lotus Development Corp.'s proposed Internet Calendaring Access Protocol; Features of the Internet calendaring protocols.