DARPA goes LOCO (was "[IP] Father [ one of the] of internet warns against Net Neutrality")

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross@stapleton-gray.com>
Date: January 19, 2007 1:56:33 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: DARPA goes LOCO (was "[IP] Father [ one of the] of internet  
warns against Net Neutrality")

At 09:13 PM 1/18/2007, David Farber wrote:
> [Bob Kahn] cautioned against dogmatic views of network  
> architecture, saying the
> need for experimentation at the edges shouldn't come at the expense
> of improvements elsewhere in the network.

Speaking about improvements elsewhere in the network, DARPA has just  
come out with a new solicitation, "LOCO" (for Location and Connection  
Aware Content Pushing)   http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA07% 
2D12/listing.html and http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa07-12.html

In a nutshell, it posits that, while caching, P2P collaboration in  
data hosting, etc., can efficiently get content across the Net, what  
will be needed by the U.S. military is a network that anticipates  
what's needed in advance of requests.  Some of that's intuitive  
(e.g., detailed tactical maps of areas being entered, order of battle  
for units likely to be encountered, etc.), but I think their targets  
are wildly optimistic, e.g. (by the end of less than three years of  
development) demonstration of a system scalable to more than 100,000  
machines, able to deliver at least 50% of information required in  
advance of a request at least 80% of the time, while delivering  
unused information less than 10% of the time.

DARPA plans to make two to four awards to companies/teams, across two  
tasks: architecting such a system, and test & evaluation, including  
construction of a testbed.

I'm working with a company that is interested in the test &  
evaluation portion of the solicitation, and seeking teaming  
partners.  There will also be a Proposer's Day Conference on Feb. 27,  
in Arlington, VA.

Ross



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Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
http://www.stapleton-gray.com







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