Internet "granddad" Vint Cerf says in the next decade, the Internet will stop being part of the telephone network; instead, the phone network -- along with most other communications channels -- will become part of the Net: "You are going to see a fairly dramatic increase in services riding on top of basic Internet infrastructure. You will see more and more layers of functionality showing up in the Net." Examples include new naming systems that allow objects other than Web servers and Net domains to become part of the Internet. The Naming Authority Pointer (NATPR) "allows you to take a domain name and map it into whatever ID space you want to. I think that's a sleeping giant because it allows you to escape the bonds of the DNS and move into new naming spaces that have very different characteristics," says Cerf, who adds that NATPR could allow such things as book or magazine ISBN codes to claim their own address space on the Net.
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