Whichever organization gets to write the NII standards would be in a position of tremendous power. Regarding research and development, there is a need for strategic research on topics such as addressing and routing, resource management, network control, and mobility. Network architecture studies are crucial for tying all the pieces together. Today we need an architecture study to take a fresh look at what the bearer service is. We also need a study for security architecture - to put the bits and pieces of security technology we now have into a coherent whole.
Bad security is the enemy of the open network.
Key security architecture goals should include assuring high reliability, protecting against system-wide failures, and addressing vulnerabilities inherent in wireless technologies. The second part of the report addressed the government's role in supporting the scientific research, education, and library communities. The government made a decision in the 1980s to demonstrate the Internet as a viable technology by making it available to the scientific research community which it had traditionally served. This experiment was a tremendous success. However, it has been suggested that the experiment was a little like giving away drugs, because the users become addicted and then are faced with the problem of how to pay for the service once government support disappears.