NSF Ponders New And Improved Internet

diorcc wrote to mention a Wired article about a NSF Project that could completely rebuild the Internet as we know it. From the article: "The National Science Foundation is backing a major initiative that could lead to a completely new internet architecture, with built-in security measures and support for ubiquitous sensors and wireless communications devices, among other things. The Global Environment for Networking Investigations, or GENI, will include a research grant program to fund new architectures and an experimental facility, which has not yet been planned in detail."

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Re:Mod Parent Redundant

[sd_diamond]

Mod this post redundant too. I hate to feel left out.

Re:What a stinking heap of pseudolibertarian efflu

[Doc Ruby]

You're a retard. I never claimed the US invented everything on the Internet. The browser I use, though, like most people's browsers, is largely an American invention - mostly the work of NCSA (Mosaic) and Netscape (Silicon Valley). And so much of GNU, as you pointed out (MIT, Berkeley, etc) is American in origin. Though there's certainly lots of foreigners contributing excellent work: often better than their American counterparts.

So what? I'm not talking about any of that. I'm talking about Internet2, the subject of this discussion. Just like the Internet, I expect my taxes and government to support research to produce Internet2, and to share it with the world. But instead, my taxes and government are subsidizing corporate testbeds for Cisco and Nortel, as a weak protest in another response correctly identified.

You're riding your little hobby horse furiously, but backwards. I hate Bush, as I often make perfectly clear in many ways on Slashdot. My demand that public investment in R&D return results to the public, rather than just to the corporate recipients (who bribe^Wcontribute to Bush to perpetuate the status quo) is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR DEMENTED DRIVEL.

I don't know what crossed nerve, exactly, I triggered in your broken little brain. But my post merely demanded that we get more return from our public investment. Which your own post seems to agree with. So get your head out of your ass and stop flaming me. Because you're just making our rational shared position look bad with your obnoxious, deranged handwaving. If only there were an Internet2 here already that could block you from polluting it with ass-backwards posts like that one.