[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[David Froble]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Friday, 5 September 2014 22:11:23 UTC+1, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk  wrote:
> [huge snip]
> 
> Meanwhile, in other "wheel being re-invented" news:
> 
> "The US National Science Foundation, Cisco, Verisign, Panasonic and
> boffins from around the world have thrown their weight behind a new
> "Named Data Networking Consortium" that aims to develop "a practically 
> deployable set of protocols replacing TCP/IP that increases network trustworthiness and security, addresses the growing bandwidth
> requirements of modern content, and simplifies the creation of
> sophisticated distributed applications.""
> 
> E.g. at 
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/05/named_data_networking_consortium_launches_to_replace_tcp_ip/

Oh, great!  Probably sponsored by Microsoft's "dirty tricks dept".

The world will adopt the new protocol(s), and TCP/IP will be abandoned. 
  In order to use the internet, everyone will need to buy a new version 
of weendoze.

It's all a trick to save Microsoft ....

:-)  :-)