IP: Economis: Upgrading the Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:00:27 -0700
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com>
>Subject: Economis: Upgrading the Internet
>Cc: hinden@iprg.nokia.com
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>Upgrading the Internet
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>"The Internet is like an overloaded highway that needs to be upgraded. But if
>done badly, the Internet's ability to support innovative, as-yet unimagined
>applications could be in jeopardy
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>QUINTESSENTIALLY modern though it may seem, the Internet is in many 
>respects an
>example of an overstretched infrastructure built in the 1970s. Like any other
>piece of infrastructure, whether a bridge or a highway, that was designed so
>long ago, it is groaning under the enormous weight of traffic it has 
>attracted.
>The Internet now needs an overhaul if it is to cope with the mushrooming 
>demand
>from millions of additional computers, hundreds of millions of new users,
>desire for ever-faster connections, and an expected boom in access from mobile
>devices. Its original architectural structure has lasted surprisingly 
>well. But
>the time has come to improve the fabric of the network itself: the software
>protocols on which it is founded."
>
>(more ...)
>http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=539740
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