This is a governmental use of the Internet, but I can imagine corporations having corollary services in their networks,

What we do is architect the Internet, and the Internet is still a pretty rollicking place. We describe different functions that get done and principles by which they work, which is a different way to do architecture.

1996 also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

We have not developed good policies for allowing corporations to extract the information that they need without invading the privacy of the individual.

It's [the Internet] not going to replace everything. It's going to complement most stuff but there are some things it's going to supplant.

If I am using a telephone line to hook up to the Internet and then once I get on the Internet I'm using voice to communicate with you, how do you characterize the transmission of that data? Is it packets of information and is it (just another phone call)?