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$12 Million donated to rebuilt Internet from scratch

GENI, Internet 2.0

         

Demaestro

8:14 pm on Jul 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

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A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.

[news.yahoo.com...]

Considering it is all built on top of 1969 technologies and ideas it is a wonder we haven't looked at this before.

With G reporting a trillion unique URLs indexed it can't come soon enough.

Demaestro

8:18 pm on Jul 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I was just thinking if they could time this with the ipV6 roll out then we could have some incredible improvements in performance and it should also help to reduce costs a lot.