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National Projects Aim to Reboot the Internet

Posted by Zonk on from the do-it-right-this-time dept.

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.'"

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  1. Nice headline, AP... by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even the Slashdot editors were less misleading.

  2. Re:Who's "Internet" are they talking about? by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can anyone reference a national system that was successfully replaced?

    Yes, the United States government right after the 2008 presidential election

  3. Mod Parent Up, Not Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this one of those 'forced upgrade' things so hardware and software manufacturers can make a heap of money selling more stuff?

    And get ready for a whole heap more IP claims and big corps attempting to own the internet.

    This is the first post, it's on topic and it replies directly to the premise of the article and gets modded... redundant?!?

    Not only that, the first three posts are all modded identically, and none of them merit it. If you ask me, someone needs to go back to mod school....

  4. Re:proper management by gad_zuki! · · Score: 0, Troll

    >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.

  5. Re:My connection works just fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's the JEWS, stupid. The JEWS want to censor anybody on the internet who tells the truth about them (or as they put it, is "anti-semitic". The JEWS want to stop you, the general public, from reading holocaust revisionist sites, they want to stop you from reading about AIPAC and the Jews in America's Congress.

    It's the JEWS, stupid.