The Internet's Broken. Who's Going To Invent a New One?

aarondubrow writes: "The Internet has evolved to support an incredibly diverse set of needs, but we may be reaching a point at which new solutions and new infrastructure are needed in particular to improve security, connect with the Internet of Things and address an increasingly mobile computing landscape. Yesterday, NSF announced $15 million in awards to develop, deploy and test future Internet architecture in challenging real-world environments. These clean-slate designs explore novel network architectures and networking concepts and also consider the larger societal, economic and legal issues that arise from the interplay between the Internet and society.

Each project will partner with cities, non-profit organizations, academic institutions and industrial partners across the nation to test their Internet architectures. Some of the test environments include: a vehicular network deployment in Pittsburgh, a context-aware weather emergency notification system for Dallas/Fort Worth, and a partnership with Open mHealth, a patient-centric health ecosystem based in San Francisco."

Comments

Re:How is it broken, exactly?

[ArcadeMan]

Everything these days should be designed from the ground up with the assumption that the requested actions are hostile in nature.

Re:How is it broken, exactly?

[im_thatoneguy]

That sounds great in theory, but at this point I'm kind of reserved to the fact that "resistant to mischief" just means we would have a year or two of peace before the inevitable flaws were so totally exploited that we were right back where we started.

Internet is broken. Health care is broken.

[SensitiveMale]

Immigration is broken. The VA is broken. Congress is broken.

Can we please stop labeling everything as being "broken."