Editorial

Citation

Schwartz, D. (1999), "Editorial", Internet Research, Vol. 9 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/intr.1999.17209aaa.001

Editorial

This issue of Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy is devoted to the issues raised and discussed at the recent International Network Conference. INC is a biennial event that provides a high-level forum for the presentation of technology-focused research on the development and use of networks. As might be expected, a major locus of interest at the conference was Internet-related systems. Our focus at Internet Research is generally on applications, policy, usage, and the organizational impact of Internet-based systems, but I think that we need the occasional shot-in-the-arm of technology papers. The developments and research projects reported on in these papers help us in recognizing, understanding, and evaluating the effects of emerging technologies on the applicative side of the Internet.

The Journal of Internet Research is pleased to have been able to sponsor this event, and I would like to thank Steve Furnell for serving as guest editor of this issue, and the other organizers of INC '98 for doing such a fine job in reviewing and selecting the papers. Topics such as content migration (Evans et al.), nomadic access (Alanko et al.), and distributed computation (Finkel et al. and Hofmann et al.), are all vital to the next generation of Internet applications that are now on the drawing boards and in the research laboratories.

But I will leave further discussion of this to Steve and the papers he and his team have chosen for this "special issue" of Internet Research.

David Schwartz