National Projects Aim to Reboot the Internet

iron-kurton wrote with a link to an AP story about a national initiative to scrap the internet and start over. You may remember our discussion last month about Stanford's Clean Slate Design project; this article details similar projects across the country, all with the federal government's blessing and all with the end goal of revamping our current networking system. From the article: "No longer constrained by slow connections and computer processors and high costs for storage, researchers say the time has come to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, a move that could mean replacing networking equipment and rewriting software on computers to better channel future traffic over the existing pipes. Even Vinton Cerf, one of the Internet's founding fathers as co-developer of the key communications techniques, said the exercise was 'generally healthy' because the current technology 'does not satisfy all needs.'"

Comments

Re:May as well fix gravitytoo

[KermodeBear]

The great thing about how the Internet is set up is that you don't have to replace the whole thing in one fell swoop. You can do one section of it, having a layer to talk between the 'old' Internet and the 'new' one. See how it works, tweak as necessary, see what you can learn. Then fix the 'new' section and apply those changes to another section, and another, until you eventually convert the whole thing (or a large majority of it).

Re:proper management

[timmarhy]

what are you fucking stupid or something? it's not a paranoid delusion that government is obsessed with controlling every asspect of peoples lives, it's a fact that they confirm daily. do i really need point it out for you or are you capable of googling?