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Information Superhighway: An Overview of Technology Challenges

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 23, 1995
Report No. AIMD-95-23
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Summary:

To take advantage of emerging technologies to create, manage, and use information that could be of strategic importance to the United States, the administration has launched an initiative to guide industry's development of the national information superhighway. While the structure and services to be offered by the information superhighway have not yet been determined, several critical technical challenges are emerging. These include the necessity of ensuring data security and protection of users' privacy: provision of a "seamless" web of features that will require standards and common interfaces and protocols; and measures to ensure reliability.

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