DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:01:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU>
Subject: DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

from a SIMS student... -Joe

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http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25240-1.html

DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows

By Joab Jackson
GCN Staff

ANAHEIM, Calif.Now that the Defense Department is embracing
network-driven warfare, it is taking a hard look at radically
improving, or discarding altogether, some fundamental computer and
network architectures.

Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science
are hampering reliability, limiting flexibility and creating security
vulnerabilities, program managers said this week at the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agencys DARPATech conference.

Among the IT holy grails that DARPA wants to see revamped are the
Internet Protocol, the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnection
modelwhich defines how devices communicate on todays networks and the
von Neumann architecture, the basic design style underpinning almost
all computers built today.

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PhD Student                  blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/

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