[IP] DARPA wants military to replace TCP/IP with new "Military Network P

I don't think the concept of dividing things at the micro level is going to create a technique to reduce costs. The reasoning that leads you to have 8 separate workstations is incredibly flawed in the first place, but the same false reasoning is being applied in MNP at the "virtual" level, which will create huge costs in other dimensions.

If the reasons you have 8 workstations on your desk were examined more clearly, I suspect you would find that the problem is not that they can't run on the same network, but that the fragmentation of information systems at the Application Level and User Level is far more costly in terms of human lives, national treasure, etc.

That is the conversation that DoD cannot have, because it involves personal power, not national safety.

On 10/17/2009 04:54 PM, Peter Thoenen wrote:

Thats not what they actually want to do. What they want is a way to cut infrastructure cost by running N physically separated networks over the same wire and TCP/IP isn't going to allow the level of separation (i.e. MAC at the layer 2 or 3 level) that is needed. The problem right now if you have a massive duplication of infrastructure ... I, for example, have eight physically separate workstations alone on my desk; the cost to support this is insane.

-Peter

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