Researchers explore scrapping the internet!

[Pacion]

:shock: :shock: :shock: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet

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.

 

[samina]

this has been in the works for awhile... actually, the word has been that an "internet 2" will emerge & be massively pushed w/ all sorts of perks, but that people will give up a certain amount of freedom and privacy by migrating onto it. those that remain with the current network would eventually notice the speed of its transaction diminish considerably... sorta like EZPass vs. cash lanes, but for the net.

but a definite trojan horse scenario, with lots of department of defence involvement.

at least that's my info.

 

[Pacion]

Ok. Guess I missed the previous memo. :lol:

 

[samina]

Ok. Guess I missed the previous memo. :lol:

that type of info comes from out-of-the-way places...

 

[Pacion]

...if not read on DF or a gossip rag first? :lol:

 

[samina]

gossip rag... lmao... that's such a great expression...

 

[Pacion]

Thanks. Except, as I wasn't the one who instigated it on DF, I can't/won't take the credit for this one

 

[samina]

eh... originated before DF... take credit.

 

[Pacion]

lol! :nope: I wasn't the first to use it on DF! (I don't think... :|) :lol: