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Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently
blackbearnh writes "It seems like everyone focuses on the latest and greatest killer Internet applications, but the underlying infrastructure that all of them run on is showing its age. That's the claim made by a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor. IPv4 is relatively ancient, and even stalled improvements like IPv6 aren't significant enough to matter, according to some researchers. With no one 'in charge' of the Internet, it's almost impossible to get any sweeping technical improvements made, especially since there's no financial incentive on the part of the ISPs and telecoms to invest in basic infrastructure. CalTech Professor John Doyle puts it this way: 'To the extent I've been working in this field for the last 10 years, I've been mostly working on band-aids. I'm really trying to get out of that business and try to help the people, the few people, who are really trying to think more fundamentally about what needs to be done.'"
Let the porn industry fix the internet. They're responsible for most of the traffic.
We're running out of IPv4 addresses?
Internet-Fixer Man!!! With his large hoard of anonymous, probably overweight, definitely awkward, mostly perverted, could be educated, willing to take risks, bunch of trolls from 4CHAN, he's going to fix the internet in no time flat!
There's nothing wrong with the internet. It works just fi
I haven't RTFA. But my little hopeful, idealistic vision for a next-gen internet is a mesh network with an ad-hoc routing protocol that can get your traffic from one side of the globe to the other, without address assignment that is centrally controlled by a hierarchy of government and corporate entities.
A solution I was thinking of was giving each device a (changeable) cryptographically secure address (ie. you generate a key pair, the public key is the address, the private key is your proof that you own that address). In the local area finding the destination could simply be a matter of asking the neighbors if they've seen it. On the global scale geographical routing could be used, with a registry mapping the public keys to their general spatial neighborhood (General so it was less of a privacy concern, say 16-256 km^2). My idea certainly needs more research, especially regarding decentralizing such a geo-address registry and making a working routing protocol that can find good routes over millions of nodes.
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I agree. There's nothing wrong with the internet, so why bother fixing it? As you can see I can access it just fine and I never needed to upgrade one single bit of my equipment.
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Dear mr.Christian Science,
Your attempt to make us panic and throw a metric shitload of money into your inadequate research to end net-neutrality has failed. The average slashdot reader knows more about the intricacies of the Internet than you expect and can therefore tell you that doom's day is far off. We know that because the Terminators need IPv6 to keep track of their innumerable minions.
No IPv6 no doom's day.
Thank you for your time,
Average Slashdot Joe
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