Saturday Bullshit - Let's Throw the Internet Away
- By: grasshopper [privmsg] On 14th Apr 2007 In
Should we throw the Internet away and start over? Bunches of smart people are looking for ways to junk it - really.
The "clean slate" movement has backing from the National Science Foundation, who wants to build an experimental research network known as the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), and is funding projects at Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and MIT.
The clean slate movement hopes to address three issues:
Security
Mobility
Workarounds for mobile devices "can work quite well if a small fraction of the traffic is of that type," but could overwhelm computer processors and create security holes when 90 percent or more of the traffic is mobile, said Nick McKeown, co-director of Stanford's clean-slate program.
Ubiquity
I understand why these are concerns, but what do you think the chances are that any of this GENI work will impact the Internet in a revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) way?
Vint Cerf has called the discussions "generally healthy" because the current technology "does not satisfy all needs." Well no shit. But sometimes legacy technology stays in place because it's legacy technology - not unlike the qwerty keyboards 99.9% of us are sitting in front of now. Inertia is powerful. What do you think?
the ITU tried that
wheres the OSI stack now.
From the Yahoo link
"Researchers are questioning whether all devices truly need addresses. Perhaps sensors in a home could talk to one another locally and relay the most important data through a gateway bearing an address. This way, the Internet's traffic cops, known as routers, wouldn't have to keep track of every single sensor, improving efficiency."
Er right thats called private adressing its how I and 99.99% of otehr network admins) design networks NOW!!!.
and "IPv4 and IPv6 addresses will become scare" not even sure if ipv4 is realy going to run out and ipv6 dont make me laugh.
Seems doable
What's the big deal? Let's just take a break, let someone re-design an Internet 2.0, and we'll all come back when its done.
I'm sure the internet will only be down for a couple hours.
They should do it at 3 a.m. when most people are asleep. And by most people I mean me.
Back up at 5 a.m. with a new internet - I like it!
And for ease of conversion...
...make the new versions of the various protocols tunnel through the current versions of the protocols. ;)
SB
I guess they spent all the
I guess they spent all the tax money allocated for "Internet 2" already?
What a joke.