Early Look at Research Project to Re-engineer the Internet
Early Look at Research Project to Re-engineer the Internet - New York Times: "The National Science Foundation is planning an effort to fundamentally re-engineer the Internet and overcome its shortcomings, creating a network more suited to the computerized world of the next decade.The new project, the Global Environment for Networking Investigations, was described for the first time by researchers and foundation officials at a technical meeting held in Philadelphia last week.
Mr. Kleinrock said it would be possible to design a network that was better able to handle traffic from the edge of the network, at the level of individual users. In the next decade, computer researchers expect an explosion of data from mobile and wireless devices as well as sensors that will vastly outnumber today's PC's.
The project described last week is an opportunity to work from a clean slate, according to several researchers involved in planning it.
"If you look at the Internet today, it does what it does really well," said David Clark, a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It's profound, but we can look at it and see some things that aren't right. The most obvious is that there is no framework for security."
When the Internet was designed in the 1970's, its engineers did not expect that the project would have to be scaled to cover much of the world's population, and security was not an important consideration.
"The culture of the original Internet was one of trust," Mr. Kleinrock said."
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