This document discusses IAB concerns that ongoing research is needed to further the evolution of the Internet infrastructure, and that consistent, sufficient non-commercial funding is needed to enable such research.

... Current funding levels for Internet research are not generally adequate, and several important research areas are significantly underfunded. This situation needs to be rectified for the Internet to continue its evolution and development.

... if commercial funding is the main source of funding for future Internet research, the future of the Internet infrastructure could be in trouble.

... for most of the topics in this document, relying solely on commercially-funded research would not be adequate.

... The net result of reduced U.S. Government funding and profit-focused, low-risk, short-term industry funding has been a sharp decline in higher-risk but more innovative research activities. Industry has also been less interested in research to evolve the overall Internet architecture.

... The DNS system, while it works well given its current constraints, has several stress points.

L3 takes place in virtual space, while the Go Game unfolds on actual city streets. But they share a common denominator: the widening of the game environment. Most forms of entertainment are defined by their edges: the outline of the Monopoly board or the dimensions of a movie screen. To enter the world of the game or the story, you enter a confined space, set off from the real world. Play-space doesn't overlap with ordinary space. But Go and L3 don't play by those rules. Go colonizes an entire city for its playing field; L3 colonizes the entire Web. These are games without frontiers.

Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions.

Now, restored in Germany with state-of-the-art digital technology and with the original 1927 orchestral score by Gottfried Huppertz added, Metropolis can be appreciated in its full glory.

It is, as A. O. Scott of The New York Times declared, "A fever dream of the future. At last we have the movie every would-be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927."

Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets and modern science fiction style, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of the German silent cinema. Kino is proud to present the definitive, authorized version of this towering classic, at a length over one-third longer than any previous release.

The Knowledge Web (K-Web) is an interactive tool for understanding and inspiring the creation of ideas ...

By flying through its unique 3D nested globes, which combine space and time into a single intuitive construct, users can explore how seemingly unrelated people, places and disciplines interrelate in unexpected and unpredictable ways ...

... people are creating things having no idea what [others are] up to ... we clearly need to think systemically ...

... sometimes an idea will lie fallow for a while until a piece comes along to enable it ...

... doodling away, diagramming people and things [and] their connections ... "spaghetti diagrams" ...

... instead of my building the thing, hoping some community would adopt it, why not let a community build it?

... The K-Web is being built by a community, but is also a community building tool which can reintegrate people and schools.

... the ability to create material, not just passively consume it, is key.

The user can get the kind of information she wants in the way she wants it; moreover, the user can see how ideas of a given text evolved (or even mutated) through time, how they were situated in varying contexts, and their effects on our lives today.