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You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020
alphadogg writes "As they imagine the Internet of 2020, computer scientists across the country are starting from scratch and re-thinking everything: from IP addresses to DNS to routing tables to Internet security in general. They're envisioning how the Internet might work without some of the most fundamental features of today's ISP and enterprise networks. Their goal is audacious: To create an Internet without so many security breaches, with better trust and built-in identity management. Researchers are trying to build an Internet that's more reliable, higher performing and better able to manage exabytes of content. And they're hoping to build an Internet that extends connectivity to the most remote regions of the world, perhaps to other planets. This high-risk, long-range Internet research will kick into high gear in 2010, as the US federal government ramps up funding to allow a handful of projects to move out of the lab and into prototype. Indeed, the United States is building the world's largest virtual network lab across 14 college campuses and two nationwide backbone networks so that it can engage thousands – perhaps millions – of end users in its experiments."
The internet and the undernet.
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So there will be no Windows machines or any other Microsoft software on this new Internet?
The question is will a government-funded internet make big-brother-ing easier?
Oh please, not that word! You're getting it all wrong. You should call it "internet-safer-place-make-ing".
the internet will still be a series of tubes, right?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
But what would Jaron Lanier say about that kind of Internet? :-)
Haven't you heard how awesome Windows 7 is?
It's totally different from Vista.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
it's going to take a lot of work to get IPoAC to work between here and Jupiter...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff