| The National Information Infrastructure and the Earth Sciences: Possibilities and Challenges | 1 |
| Mark R. Abbott (Oregon State University | |
| Government Services Information Infrastructure Management | 10 |
| Robert J. Aiken and
John S. Cavallini (U.S. Department of Energy) | |
| Cutting the Gordian Knot: Providing the American Public with Advanced Universal Access in a Fully Competitive Marketplace at the Lowest Possible Cost | 18 |
| Allan J. Arlow (Telecommunications Consultant, Annapolis, Md.) | |
| The Role of Cable Television in the NII | 26 |
| Wendell Bailey (National Cable Television Association) and
Jim Chiddix (Time Warner Cable) | |
| Competing Definitions of "Openness" on the GII | 31 |
| Jonathan Band (Morrison and Foerster, Washington, D.C.) | |
| Communications for People on the Move: A Look into the Future | 38 |
| Richard C. Barth (Motorola Incorporated) | |
| Building the NII: Will the Shareholders Come? (And If They Don't, Will Anyone Really Care?) | 44 |
| Robert T. Blau (BellSouth Corporation) | |
| The Electronic Universe: Network Delivery of Data, Science, and Discovery | 57 |
| Gregory Bothun (University of Oregon),
Jim Elias (US West Communications), Randolph G. Foldvik (US West Communications), and Oliver McBryan (University of Colorado) | |
| An SDTV Decoder with HDTV Capability: An All-Format ATV Decoder | 67 |
| Jill Boyce, and
John Henderson, and Larry Pearlstein (Hitachi America Ltd.) | |
| NII and Intelligent Transport Systems | 76 |
| Lewis M. Branscomb and
Jim Keller (Harvard University) | |
| Post-NSFNET Statistics Collection | 85 |
| Hans-Werner Braun and
Kimberly Claffy (San Diego Supercomputer Center) | |
| NII Road Map: Residential Broadband | 97 |
| Charles N. Brownstein (Cross-Industry Working Team, Corporation for National Research Initiatives) | |
| The NII in the Home: A Consumer Service | 101 |
| Vito Brugliera (Zenith Electronics),
James A. Chiddix (Time Warner Cable), D. Joseph Donahue (Thomson Consumer Electronics), Joseph A. Flaherty (CBS Inc.), Richard R. Green (Cable Television Laboratories), James C. McKinney (ATSC), Richard E. Ottinger (PBS), and Rupert Stow (Rupert Stow Associates) | |
| Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments | 110 |
| Donald P. Brutzman, Michael R. Macedonia, and
Michael J. Zyda (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) | |
| Electric Utilities and the NII: Issues and Opportunities | 123 |
| John S. Cavallini and
Mary Anne Scott (U.S. Department of Energy) and Robert J. Aiken (U.S. Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | |
| Interoperation, Open Interfaces, and Protocol Architecture | 133 |
| David D. Clark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Service Provider Interoperability and the National Information Infrastructure | 145 |
| Tim Clifford (DynCorp Advanced Technology Services) | |
| Funding the National Information Infrastructure: Advertising, Subscription, and Usage Charges | 156 |
| Robert W. Crandall (Brookings Institution) | |
| The NII in the Home | 165 |
| D. Joseph Donahue (Thomson Consumer Electronics) | |
| The Evolution of the Analog Set-Top Terminal to a Digital Interactive Home Communications Terminal | 168 |
| H. Allen Ecker and
J. Graham Mobley (Scientific-Atlanta Inc.) | |
| Spread ALOHA Wireless Multiple Access: The Low-Cost Way for Ubiquitous, Tetherless Access to the Information Infrastructure | 178 |
| Dennis W. Elliott and
Norman Abramson (ALOHA Networks Inc.) | |
| Plans for Ubiquitous Broadband Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Ameritech Region | 185 |
| Joel S. Engel (Ameritech) | |
| How Do Traditional Legal, Commercial, Social, and Political Structures When Confronted with a New Service, React and Interact? | 190 |
| Maria Farnon (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University) | |
| The Internet, the World Wide Web, and Open Information Services: How to Build the Global Information Infrastructure | 201 |
| Charles H. Ferguson (Vermeer Technologies Inc.) | |
| Organizing the Issues | 205 |
| Frances Dummer Fisher (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| The Argument for Universal Access to the Health Care Information Infrastructure: The Particular Needs of Rural Areas, the Poor, and the Underserved | 209 |
| Richard Friedman and
Sean Thomas (University of Wisconsin) | |
| Toward a National Data Network: Architectural Issues and the Role of Government | 217 |
| David A. Garbin (MITRE Corporation) | |
| Statement on National Information Infrastructure Issues | 228 |
| Oscar Garcia (for the IEEE Computer Society) | |
| Proposal for an Evaluation of Health Care Applications on the NII | 233 |
| Joseph Gitlin (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| The Internet—A Model: Thoughts on the Five-Year Outlook | 237 |
| Ross Glatzer (Prodigy Services [retired]) | |
| The Economics of Layered Networks | 241 |
| Jiong Gong and
Padmanabhan Srinagesh (Bell Communications Research Inc.) | |
| The Fiber-Optic Challenge of Information Infrastructures | 248 |
| P.E. Green, Jr. (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) | |
| Cable Television Technology Deployment | 256 |
| Richard R. Green (Cable Television Laboratories Inc.) | |
| Privacy, Access and Equity, Democracy, and Networked Interactive Media | 271 |
| Michael D. Greenbaum (Bell Atlantic) and David Ticoll (Alliance for Converging Technologies) | |
| As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII | 280 |
| Marjorie Greene (First Washington Associates) | |
| The Use of the Social Security Number as the Basis for a National Citizen Identifier | 286 |
| W. Ed Hammond (Duke University Medical Center) | |
| Estimating the Costs of Telecommunications Regulation | 292 |
| Peter W. Huber (Manhattan Institute),
Boban Mathew (Yale University), and John Thorne (Bell Atlantic) | |
| Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability | 304 |
| Kevin C. Kahn (Intel Corporation) | |
| The National Information Infrastructure: A High-Performance Computing and Communications Perspective | 315 |
| Randy H. Katz (University of California at Berkeley),
William L. Scherlis (Carnegie Mellon University), and Stephen L. Squires (Advanced Research Projects Agency) | |
| Nomadic Computing and Communications | 335 |
| Leonard Kleinrock (University of California at Los Angeles) | |
| NII 2000: The Wireless Perspective | 342 |
| Mary Madigan (Personal Communications Industry Association) | |
| Small Manufacturing Enterprises and the National Information Infrastructure | 351 |
| Robert M. Mason, Chester Bowling, and
Robert J. Niemi (Case Western Reserve University) | |
| Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management | 364 |
| Lois Clark McCoy and
Douglas Gillies (National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue) and John Harrald (NIUSR and George Washington University) | |
| Aspects of Integrity in the NII | 374 |
| John C. McDonald (MBX Inc.) | |
| What the NII Could Be: A User Perspective | 378 |
| David G. Messerschmitt (University of California at Berkeley) | |
| Role of the PC in Emerging Information Infrastructures | 388 |
| Avram Miller and
Ogden Perry (Intel Corporation) | |
| NII Evolution—Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective | 397 |
| Mahal Mohan (AT&T Corporation) | |
| Enabling Petabyte Computing | 405 |
| Reagan W. Moore (San Diego Supercomputer Center) | |
| Private Investment and Federal National Information Infrastructure Policy | 412 |
| Organization for the Protection and Advancement of Small Telephone Companies (OPASTCO) | |
| Thoughts on Security and the NII | 416 |
| Tom Perrine (San Diego Supercomputer Center) | |
| Trends in Deployments of New Telecommunications Services by Local Exchange Carriers in Support of an Advanced National Information Infrastructure | 422 |
| Stewart D. Personick (Bell Communications Research Inc.) | |
| The Future NII/GII: Views of Interexchange Carriers | 434 |
| Robert S. Powers (MCI Telecommunications Inc.),
Tim Clifford (SPRINT, Government Systems Division), and James M. Smith (Competitive Telecommunications Association) | |
| Technology in the Local Network | 447 |
| J.C. Redmond, C.D. Decker, and
W.G. Griffin (GTE Laboratories Inc.) | |
| Recognizing What the NII Is, What It Needs, and How to Get It | 462 |
| Robert F. Roche (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) | |
| Electronic Integrated Product Development as Enabled by a Global Information Environment: A Requirement for Success in the Twenty-first Century | 469 |
| Thomas C. Rochow, George E. Scarborough, and
Frank David Utterback (McDonnell Douglas Corporation) | |
| Interoperability, Standards, and Security: Will the NII Be Based on Market Principles? | 479 |
| Quincy Rodgers (General Instrument Corporation) | |
| Technology and Cost Models for Connecting K-12 Schools to the National Information Infrastructure | 492 |
| Russell I. Rothstein and
Lee McKnight (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| Geodata Interoperability: A Key NII Requirement | 511 |
| David Schell, Lance McKee, and
Kurt Buehler (Open GIS Consortium) | |
| Electronic Commerce | 521 |
| Dan Schutzer (Citibank Corporation) | |
| Prospects and Prerequisites for Local Telecommunications Competition: Public Policy Issues for the NII | 538 |
| Gail Garfield Schwartz and
Paul E. Cain (Teleport Communications Group) | |
| The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV—Which Telecomputer Architecture Is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network? | 546 |
| John W. Thompson, Jr. (GNOSTECH Incorporated) | |
| Effective Information Transfer for Health Care: Quality versus Quantity | 553 |
| Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University) | |
| Integrating Technology with Practice: A Technology-enhanced, Field-based Teacher Preparation Program | 560 |
| Ronald D. Zellner, Jon Denton, and
Luana Zellner (Texas A&M University) | |
| RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories | 576 |
| John P. Ziebarth (National Center for Supercomputing Applications),
W. Neil Thompson (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), J.D. Nyhart, Kenneth Kaplan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Bill Ribarsky (Georgia Institute of Technology), Gio Wiederhold, Michael R. Genesereth (Stanford University), Kenneth Gilpatric (National Performance Review NetResults.RegNet and Administrative Conference of the United States [formerly]), Tim E. Roxey (National Performance Review RegNet.Industry, Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Council for Excellence in Government), William J. Olmstead (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Ben Slone (Finite Matters Ltd.), Jim Acklin (Regulatory Information Alliance) | |
| Electronic Document Interchange and Distribution Based on the Portable Document Format, an Open Interchange Format | 605 |
| Stephen N. Zilles and
Richard Cohn (Adobe Systems Incorporated) |