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UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP

Posted by timothy on from the still-involves-controls-and-protocols dept.

alphadogg writes Big name academic and vendor organizations have unveiled a consortium this week that's pushing Named Data Networking (NDN), an emerging Internet architecture designed to better accommodate data and application access in an increasingly mobile world. The Named Data Networking Consortium members, which include universities such as UCLA and China's Tsinghua University as well as vendors such as Cisco and VeriSign, are meeting this week at a two-day workshop at UCLA to discuss NDN's promise for scientific research. Big data, eHealth and climate research are among the application areas on the table. The NDN effort has been backed in large part by the National Science Foundation, which has put more than $13.5 million into it since 2010.

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  1. Great idea at the concept stage. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just don't expect anyone to early adopt except the usual hypebots and yahoos. We can't even get rid of IPv4 and you want do replace TCP entirely.

    1. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. by Enry · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This. There's likely trillions of dollars invested in IPv4 that is going to be around for decades. Consider the Internet like highways and train track widths - we're stuck with it for a very long time.

    2. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You know some kind of ill conceived "content protection" is going be built into this protocol.

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  2. Mass media takeover and destruction of 'net by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is basically designed to bring the old big media, broadcast ways to the internet. Hence, to basically destroy the Internet, allowing for mass reproduction of centrally created Corporate content, where independant voices are locked out. The protocol is designed for that, mass distribution of corporate created, centrally distributed content to an ignorant, consumption only masses which are treated with disdain and objects of manipulation by the elite. This is to bring big media and the stranglehold they had for so many years on information the public has access to back.

    With the Ipv6 transition needed its time to focus on that rather than on this plan to destroy the internet and turn it into the digital equivalent of 100 channels of centrally produced, elite controlled, one way cable television programming designed to psychologically manipulate and control a feeble and dim witted public.

    No thanks and get your #%#% hands of my internet.

  3. Different layers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are also funding a study to replace roads with run-flat tires. Oh, right, different layers.

  4. Now I know why Tsinghua is involved by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was puzzled with the involvement of Tsinghua University of China with this thing

    After reading your comment it starts to make sense

    The China Communist Party needs to regain control of the Internet (at least inside China), that explains why they endorse this new scheme so much

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