THEME
B :
INTERNET
AND
THE
INFORMATION
SOCIETY
Repercussions
of
technological
issues
and
innovations
for
applications
and
contents
Technologies
- including
those
linked
directly
to
the
internet
and
growth
of
online
facilities
- are
disseminated
more
and
more
rapidly
and
have
increasingly
innovative
and
far-reaching
consequences
for
usages,
consumption
and
the
behaviour
of
players
in
our
information
society.
For
example,
peer-to-peer
dissemination
of
software
by
millions
of
web
surfers,
increasingly
widespread
permanent
internet
access
and
continuous
tracking
of
virtual
and
physical
objects
and
therefore
of
users
seem
to
be
leading
indicators
of
new
things
to
come
whose
impact
needs
to
be
determined
rapidly.
The
CSTI
needs
to
review
radical
internet
innovations
and
their
consequences
for
the
future
of
the
web.
Its
goal
must
be
to
highlight
critical
phases
in
the
industrial,
cultural
and
social
future
of
France
and
Europe.
The
CSTI's
purpose
is
to
warn
the
government
whenever
an
area
lags
significantly
and
to
brief
the
government
about
critical
dangers
and
opportunities.
=o=o=
1
- Internet:
in
contrast
with
telecommunications,
internet
infrastructures
and
applications
are
being
developed
and
deployed
in
real
time,
which
offers
advantages
as
well
as
drawbacks…
2
- Production
of
norms
and
standards:
updates,
certification,
interaction,
oversight,
etc.
3
- Infrastructures:
existence
of
a single
broadline
network
or,
in
addition
to
it,
a few
"specialised"
networks
with
gradations
(in
terms
of
speed,
permanence,
speed
of
response,
security,
confidentiality,
official
standards,
etc.);
security,
stability
and
permanence
of
networks,
lack
of
general
oversight;
the
internet
of
machines,
PLCs,
players.
4
- Applications:
Internet
and
mobility:
breakdown
of
support,
flowrates,
storage,
etc.;
private
sphere:
zones
of
protection,
relations,
connection
(possible,
desired,
authorised,
etc.)
5
- Economic
models
and
the
value
chain:
advertising,
search
engines,
P2P,
sale
of
services,
marketplaces,
web
services,
division
of
value
between
contents
and
content
media.
6
- Legal
aspects:
identification
of
responsibility
for
each
link
in
the
chain
(particularly
technical
intermediaries),
cybercriminality
(anonymisation,
etc.),
software
publishers;
private
sphere:
protection
of
personal
information,
anonymisation.
7
- Governance:
interference,
synergies
and
cross
governance
of
networked
tribes
supported
by
the
IP
technology.
