SPECIAL FOCUS PAPER FUTURE DIRECTION FOR NEXT GENERATION WEB Future Direction for Next Generation Web http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v8i6.2916 Young B. Choi 1 , Young Han Choe 2 and Tae H. Oh 3 1 Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA 2 ITU-T, Geneva, Switzerland 3 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA Abstract—We explore recent developments on the Web and forecast future development trends of Next Generation Web. This is based upon the current technologies and emerging Web technologies developed by international standard or- ganizations. The changing requirements of Web users and industry market will be introduced. Index Terms—Next Generation Web, World Wide Web, Web OS, Standardization I. INTRODUCTION The Internet is called the "network of networks." It links millions of people around the world, each of whom is using a computer connected to a smaller network such as the one in their office, or school, or to a commercial network. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia. As the Internet has become an essential tool in our daily lives, the World Wide Web is being used as the most im- portant utility. We can use to access various resources distributed over the Internet. Recent wireless and mobile trends of the Internet are also accelerating development of its customized Web services according to diverse users’ requirements. The users are in need of more powerful and customized Web services with fortified privacy and security control capabilities. Also, users are requesting more individual- ized Web services and many users are influenced by the past experience of the services. There is an increasing demand for Web users that want fast access time to their target Web services with vendor- neutral Web browser with a language such as HTML5. Platform-independency reduces the use of proprietary plug-in-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) such as Microsoft Silverlight, Sun JavaFX, Illustrator, PhotoShop and Adobe Flash although it will take time to satisfy de- manding requirements of the Web users. II. NEXT GENERATION WEB Next Generation Web can be defined as future Web with enhanced current Web features plus other emerging features. As the Internet usage has been changing with better broadband Internet access and wireless communica- tions using various mobile communication devices with converging capabilities of various multimedia services, the shape of future Web, i.e., Next Generation Web can be figured out as a meaningful Internet usage tool. Recently, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) announced the introduction of non-Latin script domain names [6] and it would be one of the biggest changes in its début of the Internet in 1969. This will ena- ble more users of the Internet to use the Web friendly than before and the Internet usage will continue to be more active than before. New Web services such as Google Wave were introduced [4]. Google Wave is a kind of con- vergence Web-based e-mail service integrating communi- cation, collaboration, and file sharing services that are available in the market. New interesting features of the Next Generation Web will be developed depending upon the users’ requirements generated in using those new Web services in their daily activities [10, 12]. Over the Internet, the users started to use the Web con- veniently to execute their common business application programs online since 2006. These programs are accessi- ble from any Web browser over the Internet even if the distributive software and data are stored on servers over the Internet without the users’ knowledge about their loca- tions, expertise, or control over the technology infrastruc- ture in the “cloud” that supports them [11, 16]. Cloud computing makes the users storing files and software re- motely in cloud instead of storing them on a hard drive or server at their offices. A few examples of cloud compu- ting are Web-based e-mail like Gmail and Hotmail, com- munication tools like Skype, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo and music-sharing sites such as SoundCloud. Since 2008, global IT enterprises such as Amazon, Google, and salesforce.com started to deliver following services: • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivering computer infrastructure typically a platform virtualization as a service • Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivering a computing platform and solution stack as a service • Software as a Service (SaaS) [13] delivering a soft- ware application license to customers for use as a service on demand. However, cloud computing also has its own issues such as security, reliability, availability, and interoperability issues to satisfy the users’ demands in full. III. CURRENT MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEXT GENERATION WEB There are five outstanding major technologies for Next Generation Web in the market as a following list. 1. Emerging markup languages – HTML5 2. Mobile web [15, 25] 3. Social Web 4. Structure data 5. Real-time Web To satisfy the diverse and ever increasing Web users’ dynamic requirements, Web applications for client in- teroperability, W3C develop following features and webs [23]. • Mobile Web to better support the mobile device us- age environment 6 http://www.i-jet.org