CSFUTRIP.RVW 950202 "The Future of the Internet Protocol", Malamud, 1993, 1-56592-996-9, U$24.95 %A Carl Malamud %A Steve Deering %A Bob Braden %A Christian Huitema %A Bob Hinden %A Peter Ford %A Steve Casner %A Craig Partridge %A Noel Chiappa %C 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472 %D 1993 %G 1-56592-996-9 %I ORAudio/O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. %O U$24.95 800-998-9938 707-829-0515 fax: 707-829-0104 nuts@ora.com %P 240 min. %S Geek of the Week %T "The Future of the Internet Protocol" WHile the current Internet protocol has proven itself to be marvelously robust and flexible, certain applications and phenomena are straining the system. Address allocation will allow for a maximum of four billion hosts, which will be exhausted before everyone in the world is connected to the net. This does not even consider the necessary infrastructure for the net, itself, or the multiple devices a person may wish to attach to it. The increasing use of non- text media requires maximum transit times and the facility for a certain bitstream to provide information to a number of hosts or sites simultaneously. Many of the eight interviews touch on SIP (Simple Internet Protocool) and other possible IP replacements. Multicasting comes up reasonably frequently, while Malamud raises the question of connection-oriented service quite often. In response to another review in this cassette, Malamud commented, "That's it? That's the review?" OK. This series, "Geek of the Week", comprises a number of half-hour interviews by Carl Malamud, featuring a number of people at the top of the international networking community. They are very lightly edited. Thus, this material most closely resembles a collection of not terribly well- thought out essays. The whole collection, seen together, could be viewed as a sort of update for the "Internet System Handbook". The material is fairly current, occasionally stimulating, and sometimes personal. But you cannot "skim" a tape. One of the tape jackets suggests you listen to these in the car. That's probably a good plan. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 CSFUTRIP.RVW 950202 ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94311-0/3-540-94311-0