Internet pioneer to oversee its redesign – GENI Gains Ground
A government contractor that played a key role in the Internet’s birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch. The National Science Foundation announced Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get up to $10 million over four years to oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI.
A new Internet could ultimately mean replacing networking equipment and rewriting software on computers, at a cost of billions of dollars. But any new network is likely to run parallel with the existing one for some time, with individuals and businesses gradually migrating over as they need more advanced applications. Clean-slate advocates say the current piecemeal effort to address security and other problems only creates inefficiencies and opens the network to more risk.
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