Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth

[Morvak]

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_TECHBIT_REBUILDING_THE_INTERNET?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-30-16-23-56

I first heard about this months ago.

Does anyone know how they will rebuild it? Would it keep inline with the way websites work today?

If things drastically change, new architecture, I can only imagine the pain and suffering webhosts and designers will go through.

But a new architecture would be a pot of gold - new books, new teachers, new things to learn, more money to be made to design everything again...

Unless I'm overthinking things.

[gangaskan]

if i had any guess, they would upgrade existing technologies to newer stuff

they may be implementing IPV6 into use too

[mbentley]

in all honesty, i can't see this really changing anything. i just can't imagine a total overhaul of the current way the internet works. it isn't like there won't be fundamental flaws that we find over time in this new internet they are trying to create. i would like to see what sort of things they are fixing with this new and improved internet. i just want a justification as to why large sums of money are potentially going to be dumped into this.

[Morvak]

i just want a justification as to why large sums of money are potentially going to be dumped into this.

good luck. how many TRILLIONS get dumped into NASA & the space program??? :screwy:

[Shiggity]

It could be better optimized for steaming media, that's the only thing I can think of. (Where the Internet could improve upon; allowing people with slower connections to be able to get semi-high quality music and video feeds.)

Everything is going to be capped / monthly fee in the future anyways.

[VinnyTAMU]

I don't think the "internet" will be rebuilt anytime soon. Even when we run out of IPv4 address space (if we haven't already), we will just NAT everything. IPv6 is not a trivial transition, neither is increasing bandwidth within the United States.

[mbentley]

good luck. how many TRILLIONS get dumped into NASA & the space program??? :screwy:

at least we got velcro out of the space program :)

[gangaskan]

I don't think the "internet" will be rebuilt anytime soon. Even when we run out of IPv4 address space (if we haven't already), we will just NAT everything. IPv6 is not a trivial transition, neither is increasing bandwidth within the United States.

i think we're pretty close in ip4 addresses



if we do ipv6 it will be interesting lol. who know's they may start using VLSM

[mbentley]

i think we're pretty close in ip4 addresses



if we do ipv6 it will be interesting lol. who know's they may start using VLSM

well there are quite a few class a subnets that are pretty empty still but that is because large companies have them. for example, the company i work for has an entire class A subnet but they can't even be close to the number of available ips (after all, there are 16777214 usable ips in a class a)

check out this list:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/

it has info on how the ip addresses are currently allocated on the internet

*edit: i can only imagine how far they are going with redesigning "the internet"... they could be going with something different all together.

[David]

Rebuilding the internet/introducing IPV6 is definitely not trivial, and will likely be piece by piece. For example: upgrading one link at a time.

[mage_x]

good luck. how many TRILLIONS get dumped into NASA & the space program??? :screwy:
trillions?? :screwy:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/210020main_NASA_FY09_Budget_Estimates_Summary.pdf

[omega pwned]

OVER 9000 MILLIONS?