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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.'"
Even the Slashdot editors were less misleading.
Can anyone reference a national system that was successfully replaced?
Yes, the United States government right after the 2008 presidential election
>The powers that be don't want the internet to work as well as it does. Instead they want to control it.
Yeah man, and like Henry Ford made a car that ran on pee, but was killed by Thomas's Edison's goons. pass the bong, man.