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April 16, 2007

Net schmet, let’s just start over!

This article from USA Today certainly served as my Monday morning wake-up call. This is an amazing concept.

Researchers explore scrapping, rebuilding the Net

By Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press
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…MORE

posted by Anna at 10:04 am |

1 Comment »

1. Comment by Ian, April 17, 2007 @ 9:49 am

   
   

   “…Industry is playing a bigger role this time, and law enforcement is bound to make its needs for wiretapping known…”

   I don’t know which is more distasteful.

   
   

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