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It's a scheme that Mazieres says wouldn't work on the public Internet but could offer improvements for private networks. Ethane could still benefit networks, however: isolating viruses on corporate networks would ultimately slow their spread on the Internet at large.
Another Clean Slate team is working on a proposal to overhaul the wireless spectrum so that wireless devices can find pockets of unused spectrum and make use of them. Still another team is looking at replacing important routers, which make up the backbone of the Internet, with optical switches. Such switches could save power and increase network capacity.
These projects got under way in September, but there are still years of work ahead and many projects to come. Wednesday's presentation will be the first time the public is invited to participate in the Clean Slate discussion. McKeown says he's looking forward to input from the broader community, including the corporate sector.
A growing number of researchers are acknowledging that the Internet is fundamentally flawed and needs an overhaul. The Stanford program is just one of a number of initiatives to fix the Internet. (See "The Internet Is Broken.")
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, believes that there needs to be a way to ensure dedicated bandwidth. "The Internet was designed to get teletype characters echoed across the U.S. in under a half second," Metcalfe wrote in an e-mail interview. "Soon we'll have to handle [high-definition] video conversations around the world. The Internet must now allow bandwidth reservation, not just priority, to carry realtime, high-bandwidth communication--video in its many forms including video telephone."
Metcalfe thinks the Clean Slate project is a great idea but believes that significant challenges lie ahead. "When you're dealing with infrastructure, in reality, off the Stanford campus ... nobody gets a clean slate," Metcalfe says. "After the brainstorming, the project will have to work on migrations, transitions, compromises, and clever hacks to get the Internet moving gradually toward their ideals."
With unprecedented access to network hardware, researchers have the chance to remake the Internet.
An academic internet provides clues about ways to improve the commercial Internet.
Patent filed for Alternative to Internet
NetAlter Software Ltd has conceptualized the concept of a system which would offer an alternative to the internet. Called NetAlter, it envisions a browser which when installed by users on their computers will form an alternative network without requiring to register domain names and hosting content on web servers. This technology based on secured P2P will offer out of the box among many other things (over 100 claims in the patent) direct P2P connectivity between users for communication, information sharing, file sharing and collaboration. It will also offer a semantic search engine that will search through every resource in the network and intelligently project results. Another core feature of this system is the concept of Democratic Grid which will enable developers to develop grid enabled applications for users and users can share their computer power with the NetAlter Grid and thus freely tap into for running their own grid enabled applications. NetAlter aims to develop a system that will be virus and spam free, preference based advertising and protect intellectual property.
The NetAlter patent has received the letter if intimation of grant in India and published by USPTO, PCT and CIPO. You can access further details on NetAlter on www.netalter.com
My understanding of the evolution of intelligence is that every time a new capability/ potential was recognised the system wasn't scraped to make way for a completely new iteration
A new layer is added to the top that reconfigures the whole system, abling it to take advantage of all the previous innovations
This idea of restricting the network to work specifically allowed by the sys ad means that reduction of the workers productivity is introduced. If a worker can't follow his inspiration - the EUREKA moment - what follows is that workers become constrained in their ability to imagine the next gen of technology that could advance the companies fortunes(increase in profits)
If these clowns(those pushing for scraping and rewritting the Internet) had been responsible for creating the original protocols governing the Internet it would be much poorer place than it currently is.
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Uh, guys ... Internet anonymity is a *feature* - not a bug.
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