Problems with WWW

Now that we have seen all the great things the Web can do, we turn to a number of problems in the Web.

HTML is too limited as a presentation format; Hypercard 10 years ago was much better:

HTML+ (HTML Level 3) is on the way

URLs are fixed descriptions; they become invalid when information is reorganized:

URI and URN's are in the works

Security (connections, authentication and authorization) will become a concern:

Groups are looking at this issue. See also World Wide Web Security

Dealing with Electronic Commerce in general:

A number of Commercial entities are working on the Internet Electronic Commerce issues (in Alphabetical order): (CommerceNet, CyberCash, DigiCash, First Virtual Holdings Inc, Internet Shopping Network, Netscape Communications, Open Market)

Exponential Growth is going to overburden the most popular sites:

Perhaps caching, higher bandwidth networks, compression and faster CPUs will help

More Information.

Last modified: Mon Apr 24 12:35:12 1995