A government contractor that played a key role in the Internet's birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch.
The National Science Foundation announced Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get up to $10 million over four years to oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI.
Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969.
Construction on GENI could start about 2010 and cost $350 million. ..Read more here...
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