The Internet and Beyond

This volume gives a comprehensive coverage of Internet technologies. It provides both a contemporary and extensive review of developments in the field and also gives details of current research.

Preface; R. Foster. Editorial; S.P. Sim, J. Davies. 1. The Internet - past, present and future; S.P. Sim, S. Rudkin. 2. Electronic commerce comes to the `Net''; J.A. Edelheit, M.R. Miller. 3. Electronic payment systems; A.P. Putland, J. Hill, D. Tsapakidis. 4. Trusted third parties in electronic commerce; P.J. Skevington, T.P. Hart. 5. Cryptography, trusted third parties and escrow; S.J.D. Phoenix. 6. Challenges for copyright in a digital age; I.D. Bramhill, M.R.C. Sims. 7. Content production and delivery for interactive multimedia services - a new approach; R. Walker, P. Foster, S.G. Banthorpe. 8. Media engineering; S.M. West, M.T. Norris. 9. Firewalling the `Net''; S.D. Hubbard, J.C. Sager. 10. Unleashing the intranet; R. Cochrane. 11. BT HealthNet - an early intranet case study; A.J. Frost. 12. CampusWorld and BT''s on-line education services; P.C. Leveridge. 13. BT PropNet - a commercial property trading service for the Internet; J. Wittgreffe, G. Hobbs, S. Berresford, K. Fisher, S. McRae. 14. Internet phone - changing the telephony paradigm? R. Babbage, I. Moffat, A. O''Neill, S. Sivaraj. 15. Distributed objects on the Web; R.J. Briscoe. 16. Network computing; M.C. Revett, M.D.T. Knul, L. Stephens. 17. Three-dimensional Internet developments; M. Crossley, N.J. Davies, R.J. Taylor-Hendry, A.J. McGrath. 18. Networked informaton management; N.J. Davies, M.C. Revett. 19. Real-time applications on the Internet; S. Rudkin, A. Grace, M.W. Whybray. 20. Mobile Internet access; M. Shabeer. 21. Internetwork futures. Appendix, List of Acronyms. Index.