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NSF Invests in Internet 2.0
Technology Review has good coverage of a couple of NSF-funded networking platforms that are starting from scratch, thinking about how to build the next generation of the Internet.
Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a ''clean-slate'' approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969.
Interestingly, NSF is now going back to BBN, the Massachusetts-based engineering firm that developed many of the early Internet technologies under contract to the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA).
As IFTF researcher Mike Liebhold points out often, what China is doing with its national Internet in many ways represents the creation of a new Internet, based on IPv6 and other next-generation technologies. Slate has a good piece on this.
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