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Deals with the demand for Internet access from businesses and consumers that keep Internet service providers (ISPs) and carriers to met the demand of customers. Problems faced by ISPs and carriers in meeting the demand of customers; Companies that are planning to developed a terabit packet networking devices; Devices to be released in 1998.

Reports that electronic commerce companies have increased their efforts to protect data privacy on the Internet. American companies' gathering of information about European Union citizens; Resolving of privacy disputes through the Council of Better Business Bureau.

Features the Internet2 project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID). Organization's goal to develop advanced, collaborative Internet applications for research and higher education; Initial bandwidth for developing and testing the applications; Debut of the Abiline experimental subnetwork; Possibilities for corporations to access broad, trouble-free space on the Internet.

Focuses on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups' plan to push several proposed quality-of-service (QoS) standards to fruition at the IETF meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Intention to achieve better quality of service in handling voice, video and data traffic during peak Internet usage; Policy framework; Web replication and caching; Network architecture.

Reports on the plan of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to open up competition for domain-name registration. Two-year registration fee; Payment of competitive fee.