The Next Generation Internet initiative builds on the foundation of earlier research sponsored by far-sighted funding agencies seeking to solve real problems but willing to take risks for the sake of high payoff. With any reasonable success, America will enter the 21st Century surfing a tidal wave of new networking technology unleashed by the Next Generation Internet. The Next Generation Internet will have an even bigger impact on the world. Just as higher education, in partnership with industry and government, led in the development and realization of the Internet, this effort will once again focus our best minds on another significant advance in the use of network technology. Higher Education welcomes the opportunity for a renewed partnership with the federal government and industry to develop the advanced network infrastructure upon which these networking capabilities depend.
Universities are engines of high-tech research.
An important tool for these new applications will be the use of video over the network. First Virtual Corporation strongly endorses the NGI, which will bring mainstream use of stored, live and real-time interactive video to broad segments of government, education and business. As a leading provider of video networking products for the NGI, First Virtual applauds this administration's vision and initiative in keeping the US at the forefront of technology.