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You're going to have to focus on building a machine-to-machine infrastructure, one that goes beyond the one that we know today and contemplates the fact that there is a machine-to-machine infrastructure on the receiving end—in people's homes, in their cars, in their pockets and purses.
Networks will have to continue to be enhanced, beyond what people dream about today, because this revolution in usage will dramatically stress future networks.
Security is going to be a big focus. We're going to have well-executed public key cryptography systems as well as digital signatures and certificates, and individuals are going to be able to use them—just as they get driver's licenses and passports and credit cards today. That has to be integrated in the way in which our businesses interact with them.
We're going to need rich schemas to describe all these information and process components so that the machine-machine interaction can take place without explicit user administration. So the XML revolution will be profound because it's an enabling technology for the new class of services that people want to discover and interact with. If we actually do all this well, it will result in more direct access to these consumers for business and more direct access by consumers and all types of customers to the capabilities that we all have. It really is the beginning of a revolution. The Internet we know today is an adolescent and there is a lot of growing up to do. We look forward to working with all of you to do this.