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By Chelsea Prince
Posted: 5/9/07, 4:19 PM EST Section: News
To fuel the appetite of an efficiency-hungry nation, private institutions and researchers are cultivating a recipe for a new, cutting edge Internet.
This ambitious operation, called the "100x100 Clean Slate Project," is expected to simmer for 10 to 15 years before the raw data will become useful. Its goal is essentially to rebuild the Internet from scratch.
When the Internet was originally built, it was under the assumption that computers were forever going to be stationary and that files would be very small. People have worked around these issues, but students, teachers and researchers all agree it is time to evolve.
The new Internet is expected to run parallel to the current Internet and eventually take it over.
Instigated by creative technological researchers at Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton and Carnegie Mellon universities, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the project's mission is to re-prioritize the fundamental principles of network design and application.
The National Science Foundation is the main source of financial support in this project and has already spent more than $10 million. By the time the mission is complete, funding for research and administration is expected to reach $300 million.
A number of research offices at the Pentagon are beginning to invest in the clean slate project but are unable to provide details. The Directorate for Public Analysis for the Department of Defense acknowledges that the undertaking is indeed a feasible task but awaits extensive research before determining what the project will entail for the government.
For many technological analysts, including personnel at Syracuse University, the clean slate approach is hard to swallow.
Paul Gandel, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, voiced a number of concerns about the Internet's redesign.
There are a number of controversies in the way that network applications are built, he said. Some people believe that you have to start with a whole new set of technologies, while others just work on developing more advanced technologies that run on the same foundational technologies.
This ambitious operation, called the "100x100 Clean Slate Project," is expected to simmer for 10 to 15 years before the raw data will become useful. Its goal is essentially to rebuild the Internet from scratch.
When the Internet was originally built, it was under the assumption that computers were forever going to be stationary and that files would be very small. People have worked around these issues, but students, teachers and researchers all agree it is time to evolve.
The new Internet is expected to run parallel to the current Internet and eventually take it over.
Instigated by creative technological researchers at Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton and Carnegie Mellon universities, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the project's mission is to re-prioritize the fundamental principles of network design and application.
The National Science Foundation is the main source of financial support in this project and has already spent more than $10 million. By the time the mission is complete, funding for research and administration is expected to reach $300 million.
A number of research offices at the Pentagon are beginning to invest in the clean slate project but are unable to provide details. The Directorate for Public Analysis for the Department of Defense acknowledges that the undertaking is indeed a feasible task but awaits extensive research before determining what the project will entail for the government.
For many technological analysts, including personnel at Syracuse University, the clean slate approach is hard to swallow.
Paul Gandel, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, voiced a number of concerns about the Internet's redesign.
There are a number of controversies in the way that network applications are built, he said. Some people believe that you have to start with a whole new set of technologies, while others just work on developing more advanced technologies that run on the same foundational technologies.
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