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DARPA takes aim at IT sacred cows
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:08:52 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu 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 --- 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. ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Lorenzo Hall http://pobox.com/~joehall/ PhD Student blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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