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Other technologies

 

Sometimes we get suggestions from new commers that V2 is like some other technology or consortium group they’ve heard about. We address each Technology/Consortium below.

 



Internet 2
(http://www.internet2.edu/)

 

A consortium led by universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies.

 

Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies.

 

We have only begun to discover the potential of Internet technology, not only to the important work of the research and education community, but to commerce and business, to healthcare and science, to the arts and humanities and beyond. Unlike any other organization of its kind, the Internet2 community pioneers the use of advanced network applications and technologies, from their academic inception through their evolution to the commercial Internet.

 

Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, Internet2 develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet

 

Conclusion (Not even close)

 

 

The grid (http://www.grid.org)


Grid computing is a form of distributed computing that involves coordinating and sharing computing, application, data, storage, or network resources across dynamic and geographically dispersed organizations. Grid technologies promise to change the way organizations tackle complex computational problems. However, the vision of large scale resource sharing is not yet a reality in many areas — Grid computing is an evolving area of computing, where standards and technology are still being developed to enable this new paradigm

 

Conclusion (Not even close or related)

 

 

 

Web 2.0 (no official website)

 

The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

 

 

Conclusion (Not even close or related - Just Hype)

They can’t even agree on what web 2.0 means. For my vote, it is a meaningless marketing buzzword. Looks more like an attempt to boster a false perception of progress in web technology because of its current state of stagnation not to mention the catastrophic failure marked by the 2000 dot com bust. Nothing more than web 1.0 a.k.a the dot.coms repackaging themselves. The old bate and switch just never dies.

 

 

Symantec Web (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/)

 

The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and its not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar?

 

Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself.

 

The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for interchange of data, where on the original Web we only had interchange of documents. Also it is about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.

 

Conclusion (Not even close or related)

Just more patch work. This is another attempt at treating a symptom and not treating the root cause. It only adds more complexity and layers to the convoluted process of building applications. It is also just a minor fix to one of the many major problems that can’t be fixed in the context of the web.

 

 

 


Web Science
(http://www.webscience.org/)

The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is a joint endeavour between the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton . The goal of WSRI is to facilitate and produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to inform the future design and use of the World Wide Web.

Conclusion (Not even close or related)

 

 

 


NetAlter (
http://www.netalter.com/index.html)

NetAlter is a system and method that presents an alternative to the existing Internet based communication and computing frameworks

Conclusion (Not even close)

 

Next Generation Internet (NGI) (http://ngi.stanford.edu/front.html)

Today's Internet is immense with over 200 million users and 40 million computers on the net. The Internet community is exploding at a rate of seven new users every second. But while the number of current Internet users grow, the development of new possibilities is being constrained by yesterday's Internet technologies.

Conclusion (Not even close)

 

 

 


100x100 Clean Slate  (http://100x100network.org/)

The Internet is one of the most successful technology achievements. In less than 30 years, the Internet has grown from a small experimental network that served as a playground for researchers to a global infrastructure that connects hundreds of millions of people. IP, the technical foundation of Internet, is widely regarded, by both the general and technical communities, to be the convergence technology layer for all communication infrastructures and services. To date, network researchers have focused on solutions that incrementally improve the Internet with the implicit assumption that radical new solutions are not needed or have no chance of ever being deployed. 

Conclusion (Not even close)



PlanetLab
(http://www.planet-lab.org/)

 

PlanetLab aims to transform today's dumb, simple Internet communications system into a smarter and much more flexible network that can ward off worms, store huge amounts of data with perfect security, and deliver content instantly. Here's how it fits into a long tradition of academic and government research projects that developed fundamental networking, transmission, and distributed-computing technologies. An effort by academic and corporate networking researchers to augment, and eventually replace, today's "dumb" Internet with a much smarter network able to monitor itself for worms and viruses, relieve bottlenecks automatically, and make personal-computing environments portable to any terminal on earth.

 

Conclusion (Not even close or related)
I admire their we want to fix the problem attitude but there plan is to fix what is not broken. What they are proposing is bad bad bad. It would add more gatekeepers to the network. There is nothing smart about that considering the nature of man. You want to move in the opposite direction. We want to remove and or  nullify all gatekeeping. The network doesn't need to be smart. The applications that run on it need to be smart or have the ability to play smart. The networks only job is to provide an efficient transportation apparatus. They also lack a clear nexus in vision, except we are going to build overlay networks. Well, ok. 

 



Final Conclusion


You will find that scientist, government and business in regard to a direction on moving the internet forward are in total confusion. They are literally groping around in the dark. Billions spent and zero progress. Sounds about right. They all think the solution is in the context of the world wide web. The U.S. governments top research and development networking group,  Large Scale Networking (LSN)  is backed by 2 billion in funding. Their latest assessment of progress is dismal.

All these technologies seek to improve the internet via the Web. But none of them deal with the root problem of the internet. 99% of these initiatives still believe the answer is in improving the web. Dead Wrong. This is the best indicator of how far away these initiatives are from making any headway. There has to be a major paradigm shift There has to be some fundamental change otherwise as Einstein said, continuing to do the same thing with the expectation of a different outcome is the definition of insanity. Finessing surface issues really takes you nowhere and that is pretty much where these initiatives are and will be for quite some time. For the most part their goals are purely commercial and not about solving the hard problems. Not one of these initiatives is ready for mobilization and deployment. Their only results will produce more patch work. They lack vision and most importantly a NeXus. Only V2 is ready for mobilization and deployment. Until then all the make it smarter, faster and more secure talk will remain just that. Without a foundation it will be impossible for any technologies to take hold unless government dictates. That is definitely what we want to avoid.

 

 

 

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