Originally published September 14 2005
New initiative to improve the internet
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Global Environment for Networking Investigations, a new endeavor by the National Science Foundation, hopes to re-invent internet technologies by funding innovations in information architecture.
Peter A. Freeman, assistant director of the science foundation for computer and information science and engineering, said that "simply to provide the kind of security everyone needs and carry the huge volumes of data necessary in the future, there was strong thinking that new architectures beyond the Internet were going to be needed."
The National Science Foundation is looking for more participants for the project, including other government agencies and potentially other countries, Freeman said.
To begin the development of the network, the government agency provided six small planning grants this summer and then introduced the idea at an all-day meeting involving a group of leading computer scientists and network experts in Washington last Monday.
A new network test bed for experimentation would allow scientists to make measurements and test new design ideas in ways that are not possible with the current Internet, said Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who was involved in developing the Arpanet, the network that preceded the modern Internet.
"If you look at the Internet today, it does what it does really well," said David Clark, a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The most obvious is that there is no framework for security."
Faster transmission speeds are not one of the design goals of the new network.
"Making a network faster has never made it more secure or easier to use," Clark said.
There was also an earlier effort to redesign the basic Internet protocols, known as IPv6.
But these efforts are either only partial or, in the case of IPv6, many of their features have already migrated to the existing Internet, Clark said.
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