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DARPA Aims to Redo the Internet Protocol
Xaleth Nuada writes "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) is looking to redo the entire Internet Protocol. With the DoD increasingly adopting network-centric warfare the shortcomings in the current IP have become resoundingly clear. Everything works fine for static hardwired networks. But not for dynamic wireless ones. The benefits for your average geek? How about REAL wireless networking? Easier network set-up? Increased wireless security protocol? Increased reliability in sending information?" Don't forget massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles. :)
"Don't forget massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles."
I read that as:
"Don't forget about the sudden explosion of extended-temp jobs flooding the market as the Internet decides to change over..."
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Upgraded to IPv6. Sigh.
They'd best be careful, or this "Protocol 7" will inadvertently cause data from dead people to leak to the Internet...
Can I hear someone say IPv6?
Someone has not got enough to do....
Don't forget massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles. :)
Yeah man, but massive incompatability and upgrade hassles are what keep some of us employed! GO DARPA!
Excuse my speling.
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And when will this new Internet Protocol be rolled out...
shortly after IPv6 adoption?
I don't see Satan reaching for his winter parka just yet...
Please! Anyone but Microsoft!
-Oy Vey
You're right. It's a good thing they weren't involved in setting up our current system.
Seriously, if they are going to rework it they better do something about the SPAM.
Let's just all pray the military dosn't call this SKYNET.
Yeah, heaven forbid we learn from our previous attempt and start fresh. We should aspire to do like Microsoft - maintain backward compatability above all other goals. Seems to work for them, right? It certainly makes things more secure...
.sigs are for post^Hers.
Heh.. the article is titled "DARPA Takes aim at IT Sacred Cows"... Love it. They rewriting the stack so that India can't connect? Is this the answer to outsourcing?
Yes, but the serious question is whether or not this so-called IPv7 will incorporate the Schumann resonance, tap into the collective unconsciousness of mankind, spontaneously create a little girl complete with family, and allow its creator to become some sort of god-like revenant.
Maybe I'm just watching too much anime...
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Does Al Gore know about this?
It made me come dangerously close to reading the article.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
...when he invented the internet?
Don't forget massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles.
Yeah, just like that PCI bus clusterfuck. What a nightmare that was. Was ISA really so bad that we all had to buy new motherboards and expansion cards? Oh wait, yes it was.
Sometimes if you want to move forward you have to pick up your feet.
Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.
Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science... "It is time to ask the harder questions about the ways of computer architecture we've been using for the past 30 years. Is it time to scrap the von Neumann architecture?"
Sigh... I guess it's back to building the Analytic Engine... Pass me the lathe, will ya...
network-enable our supply of bouncing bettys.
Landmines work so much better if they can talk to each other...
do you believe that AES has some backdoor that lets the US military decrypt your private bits?
If it does, my wife will be pretty upset - she believes she's the only one with access to my private bits.
If it's true, the US military better look out - never underestimate the power of a jealous woman with PMS.