IP: Economis: Upgrading the Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:00:27 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Bob Hinden <hinden () iprg nokia com>
> Subject: Economis: Upgrading the Internet
> Cc: hinden () iprg nokia com
>
>
> Upgrading the Internet
>
> "The Internet is like an overloaded highway that needs to be upgraded. But if
> done badly, the Internet's ability to support innovative, as-yet unimagined
> applications could be in jeopardy
>
> QUINTESSENTIALLY modern though it may seem, the Internet is in many 
> respects an
> example of an overstretched infrastructure built in the 1970s. Like any other
> piece of infrastructure, whether a bridge or a highway, that was designed so
> long ago, it is groaning under the enormous weight of traffic it has 
> attracted.
> The Internet now needs an overhaul if it is to cope with the mushrooming 
> demand
> from millions of additional computers, hundreds of millions of new users,
> desire for ever-faster connections, and an expected boom in access from mobile
> devices. Its original architectural structure has lasted surprisingly 
> well. But
> the time has come to improve the fabric of the network itself: the software
> protocols on which it is founded."
>
> (more ...)
> http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=539740



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