关键词: 信息社会, 信息技术, 信息网络, 大规模信息网络体系

Abstract: The worldwide debate on Next Generation Network, NGNin brief, has been carried on for a couple of years and the major standardization organizations in the world like ITU-T and IETF have proposed number of recommendations in this regard in the past years. There have not yet been satisfactorycommon understandings achieved so far, however. In view of the strategic naturethat NGN possesses, it seems hardly possible to solve the problems if the debate is going on with a bottom-up approach. An attempt is therefore made in the paper to take a new vision, a top-down vision, for investigating the NGN issues,thus providing the Large-scaled Information Network System (LINS) as a candidate of the NGN solution to attract more concerns.

Key words: Information Society, Information Technology, Information Network, Large-scaled Information Network System (LINS)