The cover story in the January issue of the M.I.T. Technology
Review calls attention to security and governance problems on
the Internet
"...For the average user, the Internet these days all too often
resembles New York's Times Square in the 1980s. It was
exciting and vibrant, but you made sure to keep your head
down, lest you be offered drugs, robbed, or harangued by the
insane. Times Square has been cleaned up, but the Internet
keeps getting worse, both at the user's level, and -- in the view
of [many] -- deep within its architecture.
Over the years, as Internet applications proliferated -- wireless
devices, peer-to-peer file-sharing, telephony -- companies and
network engineers came up with ingenious and expedient
patches, plugs, and workarounds. The result is that the
originally simple communications technology has become a
complex and convoluted affair. For all of the Internet's
wonders, it is also difficult to manage and more fragile with
each passing day.
That's why [David D.] Clark argues that it's time to rethink the
Internet's basic architecture, to potentially start over with a
fresh design -- and equally important, with a plausible strategy
for proving the design's viability, so that it stands a chance of
implementation..."
The story includes a mention of DETER. It begins at
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/
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