Saturday, September 17, 2005

Early Look at Research Project to Re-engineer the Internet - New York Times

Early Look at Research Project to Re-engineer the Internet - New York Times: "When the Internet was designed in the 1970's, its engineers did not expect that the project would have to be scaled to cover much of the world's population, and security was not an important consideration.
'The culture of the original Internet was one of trust,' Mr. Kleinrock said.
Faster transmission speeds are not one of the design goals of the new network.
'Making a network faster has never made it more secure or easier to use,' Mr. Clark said."

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