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NSF Tags $30M For Game-Changing Internet Research

Posted by timothy on from the does-moving-the-goalposts-count? dept.

coondoggie writes "So you want to build a better Internet? The National Science Foundation today said it would spread $30 million over 2-4 projects that radically transform the Internet 'through new security, reliability and collaborative applications. The NSF said its Future Internet Architectures (FIA) program wants: "Technological innovations and the requirements of emerging and yet to be discovered applications, the Internet of the future is likely to be different from that of today. Proposals should not focus on making the existing Internet better through incremental changes, but rather should focus on designing comprehensive architectures that can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century."'"

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  1. Likely to be different? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, the internet of the future isn't going to be a general-purpose protocol-agnostic world-wide data network for sharing and communication of information?

    Uh, can I opt-out of the future?

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  2. Step 1: by swanzilla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Abolish Flash, immediately.

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  3. Re:Time to disolve NSF? by goose-incarnated · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is much better use for 30M such as spending it on education, which is broken rather than Internet which isn't not so broken.

    Yup ... you're seriously making a great case there, trust me on this ;-)

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  4. Adoption by cosm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wishful thinking. What makes them believe anybody will adopt? The general theme I gather from the Slashdot community is that the preexisting design aesthetic (if you can even call it that) for the internet is actually pretty solid, its just the implementation that people & organizations botch. The IPv6 bandwagon isn't about to collapse from all its passengers now, is it?

    The folks who generally engineered the internet had decent enough foresight from a technical standpoint. It is the BIG Telco's and all their 'peering', 'filtering', 'throttling', and combined unwillingness to invest in new infrastructure that puts the choke hold on our tubes (pun intended). Do you expect the major Tier 1's to drop billions of $$$ to adopt, 'cuz I sure as hell don't.

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  5. Re:Time to disolve NSF? by Truth+is+life · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is much better use for 30M such as spending it on education, which is broken rather than Internet which isn't not so broken.

    That's not the point of the NSF. Besides, as this link http://nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10001/toc.jsp to their FY 2009 report shows, they already spend almost a billion dollars a year on education. Or over 30 times the value of this award. I really don't think you can claim that canceling this award and giving the money to the DoEdu (or even shifting it to the education side of NSF) would be better value for the money.