Nieuw internet in 15 jaar klaar?

[Henk op xp]

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http://www.scienceguide.nl/article.asp?articleid=103039#intro

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Nieuw internet in 15 jaar klaar?

"We believe that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that 
need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication 
infrastructure." Met die stelling start de universiteit van Stanford een 
programma om het internet fundamenteel te innoveren. De experts daar 
zeggen bovendien, dat “the Internet's shortcomings will not be resolved 
by the conventional incremental and 'backward-compatible' style of 
academic and industrial networking research.” De focus van het programma 
zal zijn “on unconventional, bold, and long-term research that tries to 
break the network's ossification.”

In hun analyse onderstrepen zij daarom: “Our reliance on the Internet 
makes us victims of its success, and vulnerable to its shortcomings. 
Some of the shortcomings are self-evident, such as the plague of 
security breaches, spread of worms, and denial of service attacks. Even 
without attacks, service is often not available due to failures in 
equipment or fragile routing protocols. And its behavior is 
unpredictable making it unsuitable for time-critical applications.

Other shortcomings are less obvious: The Internet was designed for 
computers in fixed locations, and is ill-suited to support mobile 
end-hosts; it uses packet-switching making it hard to take advantage of 
improvements in optical switching technology; it neither ensures 
anonymity, nor facilitates accountability; and the demise and 
restructuring of most network service providers suggests that providing 
network service is not profitable. In summary, we don’t believe that we 
can or should continue to rely on a network that is often broken, 
frequently disconnected, unpredictable in its behavior, rampant with 
(and unprotected from) malicious users, and probably not economically 
sustainable.”

Het onderzoeksprogramma is uitgezet om over 15 jaar tot fundamenteel 
redesign van het wereldwijdweb te komen. Het gaat uit van twee 
kernvragen; “With what we know today, if we were to start again with a 
clean slate, how would we design a global communications 
infrastructure?" en "How should the Internet look in 15 years?" We will 
measure our success in the long-term: We intend to look back in 15 years 
time and see significant impact from our program.”

U vindt de uitvoerige opzet en beschrijving van dit project hier 
<http://cleanslate.stanford.edu/CleanSlateWhitepaperV2.pdf>.

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Het zal in elk geval de vastgeroeste ideeen moeten kunnen loswrikken 
.... veranderingen mogelijk maken.
´Informatie´ zelf, en hoe die te implementeren zal een belangrijker 
plaats moeten innemen.

Henk Elegeert

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