Design and Construction of an RFID-enabled Infrastructure: The Next Avatar of the Internet (Hardcover)

Internet 2.0 (previously called the Internet of Things) presents a tantalizing vision of bridging the cyber and physical worlds to forge a seamless planet-wide infrastructure in which cyber resources and physical objects can interact without human intervention. The technology needed to build the infrastructure already exists. However, more than a decade after the vision of Internet 2.0 was articulated, it remains largely unrealized except in isolated settings.

Following a background discussion, Design and Construction of an RFID-enabled Infrastructure: the Next Avatar of the Internet addresses three questions: what are the barriers to the emergence of Internet 2.0 as a global infrastructure? What are the features that Internet 2.0 architecture must have if it is to become a successful global infrastructure?How can one build a prototype of Internet 2.0?

The quest for answers to the above questions threads the narrative through the birthing process and maturation of two successful global infrastructures―the Internet and the web. Based on a review of the design philosophies underlying the Internet and the Web, their histories and the strategic stewardship that midwifed their births, the book presents the architectural guidelines for the Internet 2.0 infrastructure as well as a blueprint for the construction of its prototype. The discussion in the book is consolidated into a list of technical and strategic guidelines intended to facilitate the incubation of Internet 2.0.

「網際網路2.0」（先前稱為物聯網）呈現了一個令人垂涎的願景，將網絡和物理世界連接起來，建立一個無縫的全球基礎設施，使網絡資源和物理物體能夠在無人干預的情況下互動。建立這種基礎設施所需的技術已經存在。然而，即使在提出網際網路2.0願景的十多年後，除了在孤立的環境中，它仍然大部分未實現。

在背景討論之後，《設計和建構一個RFID-enabled基礎設施：網際網路的下一個化身》提出了三個問題：為什麼網際網路2.0作為一個全球基礎設施的出現存在障礙？如果要成為一個成功的全球基礎設施，網際網路2.0架構必須具備哪些特點？如何建立網際網路2.0的原型？

尋找上述問題的答案貫穿整個敘述，介紹了兩個成功的全球基礎設施──網際網路和網頁──的誕生過程和成熟過程。根據對網際網路和網頁設計理念、歷史和戰略管理的回顧，本書提出了網際網路2.0基礎設施的架構指南，以及建立其原型的藍圖。本書的討論整理成一份技術和戰略指南清單，旨在促進網際網路2.0的孵化。