Creating a new OSI to use on Big Biz's New Internet.
In recent political and technological disputes, major businesses such as Comcast, Verizon and the Bell companies have been promoting the two-tiered internet system. Basically promoting a seperation of the back haul to the internet that as of today is a single field, they want to make it into two systems. One tier would be a expsenive, paid-for, faster network for large businesses to conduct large-scale data transactions. The other would be a slower, relativly inexpensive network that would connect people to the smaller networks and networks in particular.
Back in the 1970's when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) developed the Internet Protocol with help from Stanford, Bolt and other organizations, they created the 7-layer Open System Interconnection (OSI) that has been the standard for internet and network communications that are still used today.
Rather then forcing companies and individuals to be part of this two-tiered system, why don't the business invest in another research team to put together another, better way to connect computers, rather then the OSI? They could create this better protocol, possibly faster, more secure... I'm sure there is some new information that could let them produce it more effecient now...Then they could use their new OSI on a new back haul system, and it wouldnt affect the internet that we know today. Would this work? What would it cost? Have companies explored other protocols like OSI?
It seems like the businesses that want a new internet would need to create it, rather then hijack the existing one.
Back in the 1970's when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) developed the Internet Protocol with help from Stanford, Bolt and other organizations, they created the 7-layer Open System Interconnection (OSI) that has been the standard for internet and network communications that are still used today.
Rather then forcing companies and individuals to be part of this two-tiered system, why don't the business invest in another research team to put together another, better way to connect computers, rather then the OSI? They could create this better protocol, possibly faster, more secure... I'm sure there is some new information that could let them produce it more effecient now...Then they could use their new OSI on a new back haul system, and it wouldnt affect the internet that we know today. Would this work? What would it cost? Have companies explored other protocols like OSI?
It seems like the businesses that want a new internet would need to create it, rather then hijack the existing one.
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