IPv6
Errm... isn't that what IPv6 is for? Granted there's more to the Internet than that, HTTP and HTML could probably use a rethink. Migration will be a killer though. How long have we been waiting for IPv6?
DARPA*, the US military's occasionally eccentric death-tech hothouse, is often lauded as having created the internet. Under its old name ARPA, the agency oversaw development of the so-called Arpanet, forerunner of today's IP net. Now, however, DARPA reckons the internet needs to be reinvented. This week the Pentagon's radical …
"DARPA is interested in ideas that will lead to the development of new addressing schemes (eg, a structured hierarchical addressing system) to supplement the current IP scheme."
Doesn't IPv6 (and to an extent the current IPv4 address allocation system) do that ?
And wasn't OSI based on a hierachical addressing scheme ? We all know how well that took off.
I'd be all for a more up to date efficient interweb... faster speeds? you mean like the ones the Japanese and Swedish have?
I'm just more concerned with what little secret snooping protocols the current administration would also like to sneak into the standards, and that's me taking off the tinfoil hat!
"DARPA aren't fixing to cough up any cash as yet, but they say they might well if any promising notions turn up"
If they aint fixing to throw a wad of cash, that would choke a donkey, at a project they've turned onto over the Web, they aint even warming up the the Game....and that puts them out of the Game altogether........ Lost in CyberSpace.
They may as well be taking a bath for all the good that they will be doing sitting on the sidelines.
I would respectfully remind those that claim that CPU and memory limitations no longer apply to rethink that attitude. Those limitations may not apply to today's typical desktops and servers. But I would think it would matter very much to handheld devices (such as those deployed to the armed forces). Not in the same way that it mattered when ARPAnet started when devices had much less processing power and memory, but still. Then again, such thoughts will lead us into another optimize-or-not debate. The one thing I would suggest is to find a way to build security into the network instead of as an add-on like https.
I think that if all ISPs started filtering out spam at its source then that would give us a lot more bandwidth to play with. Though we'd have to pay more for the processing power that they need to stop the spam. I like how the FBI or whoever it was had released code to patch up people's machines automatically though, it's really what needs to be done now.
Alternatively, we could nuke Microsoft? Problem solved..
Your thinking of Tim Berners Lee and crew, they invented the browser and http. ARPA ran the project to connect government and educational networks across the country to provide resilient multiple routes with the idea that it can be used for reliable communication as it wasnt dependent on a single point to point connection.