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DARPA goes LOCO (was "Father [ one of the] of internet warns against Net Neutrality")
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:18:03 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross () stapleton-gray com> Date: January 19, 2007 1:56:33 AM EST To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox comSubject: DARPA goes LOCO (was "[IP] Father [ one of the] of internet warns against Net Neutrality")
At 09:13 PM 1/18/2007, David Farber wrote:
[Bob Kahn] cautioned against dogmatic views of network architecture, saying theneed for experimentation at the edges shouldn't come at the expense of improvements elsewhere in the network.
Speaking about improvements elsewhere in the network, DARPA has just come out with a new solicitation, "LOCO" (for Location and Connection Aware Content Pushing) http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA07% 2D12/listing.html and http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa07-12.html
In a nutshell, it posits that, while caching, P2P collaboration in data hosting, etc., can efficiently get content across the Net, what will be needed by the U.S. military is a network that anticipates what's needed in advance of requests. Some of that's intuitive (e.g., detailed tactical maps of areas being entered, order of battle for units likely to be encountered, etc.), but I think their targets are wildly optimistic, e.g. (by the end of less than three years of development) demonstration of a system scalable to more than 100,000 machines, able to deliver at least 50% of information required in advance of a request at least 80% of the time, while delivering unused information less than 10% of the time.
DARPA plans to make two to four awards to companies/teams, across two tasks: architecting such a system, and test & evaluation, including construction of a testbed.
I'm working with a company that is interested in the test & evaluation portion of the solicitation, and seeking teaming partners. There will also be a Proposer's Day Conference on Feb. 27, in Arlington, VA.
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