Internet 2

[danzaland]

IN a nutshell:
THere is thought out there that the current internet is dying, can't handle the band width and is full of viruses. Big coporations want to create an internet 2 where they build the infrastructure and maintain it and thus regulate it, all the while the infrastructure for the current internet is not updated, thus killing it.

Do you think it can happen? Do you realize what this means for you and your site?

[Worm]

How can a thing that is effectively a motley network of computers and cables ever not have enough bandwith?

[bruce]

IN a nutshell:
THere is thought out there that the current internet is dying, can't handle the band width and is full of viruses. Big coporations want to create an internet 2 where they build the infrastructure and maintain it and thus regulate it, all the while the infrastructure for the current internet is not updated, thus killing it.

Do you think it can happen? Do you realize what this means for you and your site?

Uh, Internet 2 is a research network. This thing of which you speak would be Internet 3, I guess.

But, fundamentally, yeah, the Internet as we came to love it between 1995 and 2005 will be regulated out of existence sooner rather than later.

Then it'll be supplanted by, I dunno, peer-to-peer packet-hopping networks on opportunistically-created dynamic wireless networks, or something.

Bruce

[chris]

IN a nutshell:
THere is thought out there that the current internet is dying, can't handle the band width and is full of viruses. Big coporations want to create an internet 2 where they build the infrastructure and maintain it and thus regulate it, all the while the infrastructure for the current internet is not updated, thus killing it.

Do you think it can happen? Do you realize what this means for you and your site?

First off (as somebody else stated), Internet2 already exists and is used by corporations and educational institutions. We already use it where I work (a big university), and the bandwidth is much higher. Any traffic we send out to a destination that's also on I2 automatically gets routed through I2....it's all transparent on the user's end.

Second, who do you think ultimately built and controls the existing Internet? You guessed, governments (the US government in fact) and corporations (and some universities as well). The two backbones for the entire Internet are controlled by Sprint and MCI, if I'm not mistaken. There's also no way for a world-wide, multi-national network like the Internet to be *really* regulated by anybody, including corporations or governments, and there's no way that the existing Internet could ever be truly replaced by something completely different...it's too well entrenched for that.

However, the Internet will surely evolve. I suppose it's theoretically possible for some company to introduce a proprietary technology that gives them some sort of influence on the Internet, but I can't forsee that actually happening.

[Worm]

First off (as somebody else stated),

Come on, he's the post right above yours. Unless you two had a fight or somethin.

I just can't buy the idea of Internet regulation until there are usenet regulations.

[chris]

Come on, he's the post right above yours. Unless you two had a fight or somethin.

No fight...just didn't have the energy to figure out who said it.