news.yahoo.com — 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...
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somasynthApr 14, 2007
"What a waste of money"They misplace more money than that each year. You can slip a few billion into the budget, buy yourself a country in africa and they wouldn't notice.
ukczApr 14, 2007
There are times when 'power to the people' doesn't sound so daft. This is one of them.
kolanosApr 14, 2007
Funny, when they say "security", all I hear is "control".
endersgameApr 15, 2007
In Soviet Russia, Internet scraps you...Oh and phdaves, Internet2 will never be 'rolled out' for commercial use. Its a network entirely made of fiber-optics and is used only to test new technologies by educational and government entities. Sure, some technologies that are tested on the network will reach the average consumer some day but you are dreaming if you think you will have access to the 100GB/s+ network that is I2.
Closed AccountApr 15, 2007
I have to say now that it's global it's not going to happen.
waffleninjaApr 15, 2007
i am all for this. i can't delete my incriminating e-mails from the server without it.
dahifiApr 16, 2007
Cringely has a write up of the proposal here: <a class="user" href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070222_001749.html.">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070222_001749.html.</a> It's not really so much replacing the existing internet as it is creating a new DNS system that would be more accountable to disputes and scammers and also wouldn't be a multimillion dollar industry. By requiring all DNS registrants to submit real contact information it would get rid of the scammers but would also affect internet anonymity.
withMay 7, 2007
Great, I hope they roll this Internet back to v1.0.