W hen the Internet Engineering Task Force approved Internet protocol version 6 several years ago, proponents acclaimed it as a major development. Since then, IPv6 (see the sidebar " IPv6 Primer ") has received support only in some areas. In Asia, for example, the profusion of smart cellular phones and PDAs has caused the demand for IP addresses to outstrip the limited supply provided by IPv4, t...

We survey some recent results related to three long wave asymptotic regimes for the Nonlinear-Schrödinger Equation: the Euler regime corresponding to the WKB method, the linear wave regime and finally the KdV/KP-I asymptotic dynamics.