DARPA wants military to replace TCP/IP with new "Military Network Protocol"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
> Date: October 17, 2009 17:26:23 EDT
> To: Peter Thoenen <peter.thoenen () yahoo com>
> Cc: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] DARPA wants military to replace TCP/IP with new  
> "Military Network Protocol"

> I don't think the concept of dividing things at the micro level is  
> going to create a technique to reduce costs.  The reasoning that  
> leads you to have 8 separate workstations is incredibly flawed in  
> the first place, but the same false reasoning is being applied in  
> MNP at the "virtual" level, which will create huge costs in other  
> dimensions.
>
> If the reasons you have 8 workstations on your desk were examined  
> more clearly, I suspect you would find that the problem is not that  
> they can't run on the same network, but that the fragmentation of  
> information systems at the Application Level and User Level is far  
> more costly in terms of human lives, national treasure, etc.
>
> That is the conversation that DoD cannot have, because it involves  
> personal power, not national safety.
>
> On 10/17/2009 04:54 PM, Peter Thoenen wrote:
> > Thats not what they actually want to do.  What they want is a way  
> > to cut infrastructure cost by running N physically separated  
> > networks over the same wire and TCP/IP isn't going to allow the  
> > level of separation (i.e. MAC at the layer 2 or 3 level) that is  
> > needed.  The problem right now if you have a massive duplication of  
> > infrastructure ... I, for example, have eight physically separate  
> > workstations alone on my desk; the cost to support this is insane.
> >
> > -Peter



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