• Front Matter R1-R14

• The National Information Infrastructure and the Earth Sciences: Possibilities and Challenges 1-9

• Government Services Information Infrastructure Management 10-17

• Cutting the Gordian Knot: Providing the American Public with Advanced Universal Access in a Fully Competitive Marketplace at the Lowest Possible Cost 18-25

• The Role of Cable Television in the NII 26-30

• Competing Definitions of 'Openness' on the GII 31-37

• Communications for People on the Move: A Look into the Future 38-43

• Building the NII: Will the Shareholders Come? (And if They Don't, Will Anyone Really Care?) 44-56

• The Electronic Universe: Network Delivery of Data, Science, and Discovery 57-66

• An SDTV Decoder with HDTV Capability: An All-Format ATV Decoder 67-75

• NII and Intelligent Transport Systems 76-84

• Post-NSFNET Statistics Collection 85-96

• NII Road Map: Residential Broadband 97-100

• The NII in the Home: A Consumer Service 101-109

• Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments 110-122

• Electric Utilities and the NII: Issues and Opportunities 123-132

• Interoperation, Open Interfaces, and Protocol Architecture 133-144

• Service Provider Interoperability and the National Information Infrastructure 145-155

• Funding the National Information Infrastructure: Advertising, Subscription, and Usage Charges 156-164

• The NII in the Home 165-167

• The Evolution of the Analog Set-Top Terminal to a Digital Interactive Home Communications Terminal 168-177

• Spread ALOHA Wireless Multiple Access: The Low-Cost Way for Ubiquitous, Tetherless Access to the Information Infrastructure 178-184

• Plans for Ubiquitous Broadband Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Ameritech Region 185-189

• How Do Traditional Legal, Commercial, Social, and Political Structures, When Confronted with a New Service, React and Interact? 190-200

• The Internet, the World Wide Web, and Open Information Services: How to Build the Global Information Infrastructure 201-204

• Organizing the Issues 205-208

• The Argument for Universal Access to the Health Care Information Infrastructure: The Particular Needs of Rural Areas, the Poor, and the Underserved 209-216

• Toward a National Data Network: Architectural Issues and the Role of Government 217-227

• Statement on National Information Infrastucture Issues 228-232

• Proposal for an Evaluation of Health Care Applications on the NII 233-236

• The Internet - A Model: Thoughts on the Five Year Outlook 237-240

• The Economics of Layered Networks 241-247

• The Fiber-Optic Challenge of Information Infrastructure 248-255

• Cable Television Technology Deployment 256-270

• Privacy, Access and Equity, Democracy, and Networked Interactive Media 271-279

• As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII 280-285

• The Use of the Social Security Number as the Basis for a National Citizen Identifier 286-291

• Estimating the Costs of Telecommunications Regulation 292-303

• Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability 304-314

• The National Information Infrastructure: A High Performance Computing and Communications Perspective 315-334

• Nomadic Computing and Communications 335-341

• NII 2000: The Wireless Perspective 342-350

• Small Manufacturing Enterprises and the National Information Infrastructure 351-363

• Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management 364-373

• Aspects of Integrity in the NII 374-377

• What the NII Could Be: A User Perspective 378-387

• Role of the PC in Emerging Information Infrastructures 388-396

• NII Evolution - Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective 397-404

• Enabling Petabyte Computing 405-411

• Private Investment and Federal National Information Infrastructure Policy 412-415

• Thoughts on Security and the NII 416-421

• Trends in Deployments of New Telecommunications Services by Local Exchange Carriers in Support of an Advanced National Information Infrastructure 422-433

• The Future NII/GII: Views of Interexchange Carriers 434-446

• Technology in the Local Network 447-461

• Recognizing What the NII Is, What It Needs, and How to Get It 462-468

• Electronic Integrated Product Development as Enabled by a Global Information Environment: A Requirement for Success in the Twenty-first Century 469-478

• Interoperability, Standards, and Security: Will the NII Be Based on Market Principles? 479-491

• Technology and Cost Models for Connecting K-12 Schools to the National Information Infrastructure 492-510

• Geodata Interoperability: A Key NII Requirement 511-520

• Electronic Commerce 521-537

• Prospects and Prerequisites for Local Telecommunications Competition: Public Policy Issues for the NII 538-545

• The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV - Which Is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network? 546-552

• Effective Information Transfer for Health Care: Quality versus Quantity 553-559

• Integrating Technology with Practice: A Technology-enhanced, Field-based Teacher Preparation Program 560-575

• RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories 576-604

• Electronic Document Interchange and Distribution Based on the Portable Document Format, an Open Interchange Format 605-617

" Technology in the Local Network ." The Unpredictable Certainty: White Papers . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997 .

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