Stanford University is hosting a seminar today looking at how the internet should look in 15 years.
As Nick McKeown, the project head, says in a School of Engineering news release:
We should be able to answer that question by saying we created exactly what we need, not just that we patched some more holes, made some new tweaks or came up with some more work-arounds. Let’s invent the car instead of giving the same horse better hay.
The group issued a whitepaper last year that described the launch of the inter-disciplinary program with 5 key areas of research:
- Network architecture
- Heterogeneous applications
- Heterogeneous physical layer technologies
- Security
- Economics & policy
The introduction to the whitepaper had fascinating language about shortcomings of the current operation of the internet:
… we don’t believe that we can or should continue to rely on a network that is often broken, frequently disconnected, unpredictable in its behaviour, rampant with (and unprotected from) malicious users, and probably not economically sustainable.
We will want to watch for news from today’s presentations.
The new federal budget calls for $120M to fund CANARIE, including the development of CA*net5.
Who will lead Canada’s participation in examining a clean slate for the internet?
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