DARPA Wants Your Ideas to Revolutionize the Internet
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is credited with having created the Internet. This central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD) is famous for pursuing “research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions”, which usually translate to funding bizarre death-tech projects.
However, DARPA’s current call is for "revolutionary ideas" to overhaul the current Internet. Apparently, DARPA thinks there's plenty of room for improvement. They say that they want "methods to re-think and potentially redesign some of the basic concepts that have shaped today's internet technology. The goal ... is to improve transfer speeds, network-routing efficiency, reliability, simplify network configuration, and reduce cost ... DARPA is interested in ideas that will lead to the development of new addressing schemes (e.g., a structured hierarchical addressing system) to supplement the current IP scheme."
If you have any "revolutionary" ideas for revamping the Internet, hit up the DARPA link below, which has full instructions on how to submit position papers. The agency is famous for funding hair-brained ideas. They are currently investing in invisible shields, bionic arms, and two different robot races, no less.
DARPA says that when the present protocols were set up, memory and processing power were big limiting factors. At least in Pentagon networks, they say that's no longer the case and its time to get out of the Internet Stone Age and modernize the world’s favorite new way to communicate.
Posted by Josh Hill.
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