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Post by CMF Newsman on Apr 14, 2007 6:25:20 GMT -5
NEW YORK - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over. The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a "clean slate" approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock helped supervise the first exchange of meaningless test data between two machines on Sept. 2, 1969. The Internet "works well in many situations but was designed for completely different assumptions," said Dipankar Raychaudhuri, a Rutgers University professor overseeing three clean-slate projects. "It's sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today." No longer constrained by slow connections and computer processors and high costs for storage, researchers say the time has come to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, a move that could mean replacing networking equipment and rewriting software on computers to better channel future traffic over the existing pipes. story
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Post by Justin Thyme on Apr 14, 2007 6:32:29 GMT -5
And you can bet your last dollar that this "new" internet would have DRM built right in and also require a digital signature for all users to prevent anonymity. I don't know that that is necessarily a bad thing.
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Post by Jay on Apr 14, 2007 13:04:08 GMT -5
I doubt anything like that can happen......It's grown a bit since Arpanet... It's all over the world now... It just needs to be updated a bit...... Bigger backbones or something
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Post by one on Apr 14, 2007 13:25:28 GMT -5
E-commerce will not allow the fall of the internet. The government would love it however since they currently have no real way to regulate the billions of dollars in transactions that go on each day.
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