You are correct in the sense that 2.0 and 3.0 are empty terms. While your Web NG provides a definition of new capabilities - direct data access, application and ubiquitous delivery modes, I don’t think that any of these rise to a “next generation” status.

If you consider what the internet has done to provide ready access to information from multiple sources and not a certain degree eCommerce, I would submit that the next generation of the Internet will need to either enhance our security or improve our social interactions.

Think about the world we are living in now - how safe are we with terrorists and isn’t our whole mode of social interaction changing? I would look for an internet (and subnets) that provide virtual communities in an electronic age - just as our parents once knew and interacted with their neighbors.

Look forward to continuing this thread with you.

Jan Klein
Executive in Residence
Stevens Institute of Technology