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NSF Ponders New And Improved Internet

Posted by Zonk on from the can-this-one-deliver-soda-over-ip? dept.

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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  1. Re:Uh Oh by hungrygrue · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really? Why? http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore _internet/index.html

  2. more boondoggles by dh003i · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yet another way in which the govenrment can spend the money it steals from us in mass-quantities, or justify stealing more money from us. If the project is such a great idea, let it be funded by voluntary means (donations, contributions, etc), rather than by coercive involuntary means (taxes, government borrowing, inflation).

    Why is it that some people think that just because they feel they have a good idea, that justifies stealing money from others, e.g., violating the property-rights of others?

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    social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen