As per Relevance of the word everyone, we have this rfc below:
Network Working Group V.
Request for Comments: 3271 Internet
Category: Informational April 2002
The Internet is for
Status of this
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
memo is unlimited
Copyright
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved
This document expresses the Internet Society's ideology that
Internet really is for everyone. However, it will only be such
we make it so
1. The Internet is for
How easy to say - how hard to achieve
How have we progressed towards this noble goal
The Internet is in its 14th year of annual doubling since 1988.
There are over 150 million hosts on the Internet and an estimated 513
million users, world wide
By 2006, the global Internet is likely to exceed the size of
global telephone network, if it has not already become the
network by virtue of IP telephony. Moreover, as many as 1.5
Internet-enabled appliances will have joined traditional servers
desk tops and laptops as part of the Internet family. Pagers,
phones and personal digital assistants may well have merged to
the new telecommunications tools of the next decade. But even at
scale of the telephone system, it is sobering to realize that
half of the Earth's population has ever made a telephone call
It is estimated that commerce on the network will reach
between $1.8T and $3.2T by 2003. That is only two years from
(but a long career in Internet years).
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The number of Internet users will likely reach over 1000 million
the end of the year 2005, but that is only about 16% of the world'
population. By 2047 the world's population may reach about 11
billion. If only 25% of the then world's population is on
Internet, that will be nearly 3 billion users
As high bandwidth access becomes the norm through digital
loops, cable modems and digital terrestrial and satellite
links, the convergence of media available on the Internet will
obvious. Television, radio, telephony and the traditional
media will find counterparts on the Internet - and will be changed
profound ways by the presence of software that transforms the one-
media into interactive resources, shareable by many
The Internet is proving to be one of the most powerful amplifiers
speech ever invented. It offers a global megaphone for voices
might otherwise be heard only feebly, if at all. It invites
facilitates multiple points of view and dialog in
unimplementable by the traditional, one-way, mass media
The Internet can facilitate democratic practices in unexpected ways
Did you know that proxy voting for stock shareholders is now
supported on the Internet? Perhaps we can find additional ways
which to simplify and expand the voting franchise in other domains
including the political, as access to Internet increases
The Internet is becoming the repository of all we have
as a society. It has become a kind of disorganized "Boswell" of
human spirit. Be thoughtful in what you commit to email,
groups, and other Internet communication channels - it may well
up in a web search some day. Thanks to online access to
repositories, shared databases on the Internet are acting
accelerate the pace of research progress
The Internet is moving off the planet! Already,
Internet is part of the NASA Mars mission program now underway at
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By 2008 we should have a well-
Earth-Mars network that serves as a nascent backbone of an inter
planetary system of Internets - InterPlaNet is a network
Internets! Ultimately, we will have interplanetary Internet
in polar solar orbit so that they can see most of the planets
their associated interplanetary gateways for most, if not all of
time
The Internet Society is launching a new campaign to facilitate
to and use of Internet everywhere. The campaign slogan is "
is for everyone," but there is much work needed to accomplish
objective
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Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it isn't affordable
all that wish to partake of its services, so we must
ourselves to making the Internet as affordable as
infrastructures so critical to our well-being. While we
Moore's Law to reduce the cost of Internet-enabling equipment, let
also seek to stimulate regulatory policies that take advantage of
power of competition to reduce costs
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if Governments
access to it, so we must dedicate ourselves to keeping the
unrestricted, unfettered and unregulated. We must have the
to speak and the freedom to hear
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it cannot keep up
the explosive demand for its services, so we must dedicate
to continuing its technological evolution and development of
technical standards the lie at the heart of the Internet revolution
Let us dedicate ourselves to the support of the Internet
Board, the Internet Engineering Steering Group, the Internet
Task Force, the Internet Engineering Task Force and
organizations dedicated to developing Internet technology as
drive us forward into an unbounded future. Let us also
ourselves to support the work of the Internet Corporation
Assigned Names and Numbers - a key function for the Internet'
operation
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be until in every home,
every business, in every school, in every library, in every
in every town and in every country on the Globe, the Internet can
accessed without limitation, at any time and in every language
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if it is too complex to
used easily by everyone. Let us dedicate ourselves to the task
simplifying the Internet's interfaces and to educating all that
interested in its use
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if legislation around
world creates a thicket of incompatible laws that hinder the
of electronic commerce, stymie the protection of
property, and stifle freedom of expression and the development
market economies. Let us dedicate ourselves to the creation of
global legal framework in which laws work across national
to reinforce the upward spiral of value that the Internet is
of creating
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Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if its users
protect their privacy and the confidentiality of
conducted on the network. Let us dedicate ourselves to
proposition that cryptographic technology sufficient to
privacy from unauthorized disclosure should be freely available
applicable and exportable. Moreover, as authenticity lies at
heart of trust in networked environments, let us dedicate
to work towards the development of authentication methods and
capable of supporting electronic commerce through the Internet
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if parents and
cannot voluntarily create protected spaces for our young people
whom the full range of Internet content still may be inappropriate
Let us dedicate ourselves to the development of technologies
practices that offer this protective flexibility to those who
responsibility for providing it
Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if we are not
in its use and mindful of the rights of others who share its wealth
Let us dedicate ourselves to the responsible use of this new
and to the proposition that with the freedoms the Internet
comes a commensurate responsibility to use these powerful
with care and consideration. For those who choose to abuse
privileges, let us dedicate ourselves to developing the
tools to combat the abuse and punish the abuser
Internet is for everyone - even Martians
I hope Internauts everywhere will join with the Internet Society
like-minded organizations to achieve this, easily stated but hard
attain goal. As we pass the milestone of the beginning of the
millennium, what better theme could we possibly ask for than
the Internet the medium of this new millennium
Internet IS for everyone - but it won't be unless WE make it so
2. Security
This document does not treat security matters, except for
to the utility of cryptographic techniques to protect
and privacy
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3.
[1] Internet Society - www.isoc.
[2] Internet Engineering Task Force - www.ietf.
[3] Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -
www.ICANN.
[4] Cerf's slides: www.wcom.com/
[5] Interplanetary Internet - www.ipnsig.
[6] Internet history - livinginternet.
4. Author's
Vint
former Chairman and President, Internet
January 2002
Sr. Vice President, Internet Architecture and
22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115
Ashburn, VA 20147
EMail: vinton.g.cerf@wcom.
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5. Full Copyright
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved
This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished
others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain
or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied,
and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of
kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
included on all such copies and derivative works. However,
document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by
the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or
Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose
developing Internet standards in which case the procedures
copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must
followed, or as required to translate it into languages other
English
The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not
revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns
This document and the information contained herein is provided on
"AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET
TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE
HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by
Internet Society
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