Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a "clean slate" approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock helped supervise the first exchange of meaningless test data between two machines on Sept. 2, 1969.
From the sounds of the article, they want to do a complete overhaul of the Internet's basic architecture. The original system was designed on a level of absolute trust, which eventually got exploited by spammers and hackers alike. The new system is to be faster and more secure making it quicker to channel safe data to you and everyone else.
There are a lot of governments and organizations supporting this ranging from the Department of Defence to the National Science Foundation. However, in order to go through with this project, the US Congress has to grant them money.
This means The Internet 2.0 won't happen for another 10 - 15 years. Until then, we are going to be using what works, even if the experts are surprised that this current system works as well as it does.
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