Internet2 and You 83
eldavojohn writes "With a name like Internet2 and such high press coverage, you might think that's the future of the Internet servicing our homes. But Ars Technica looks more closely at what the odds actually are for it to become mainstream. When will you see the effects of the software, planning and hardware that went into Internet2 in your home? The odds are the very distant future — if at all. From the article: 'The Internet as we now know it is anything but obsolete. The amount of dedicated hardware and personal attention required to get networks like Internet2 and DANTE working simply makes them uneconomical for most common uses. And, unless a majority of networked content moves onto these dedicated networks, then having access to them may not do users much good. If the academic networks change the commercial ones, they'll do it in an evolutionary way, by providing improved hardware and better software for running traffic within the constraints of the existing economic structure.'"
Who paid for it? (Score:5, Interesting)
Back when domains were $100 for two years, 30% went into an "intellectual infrastructure fund". This was set up by Don Mitchell of the National Science Foundation who has aegis over domains and administered the NSI contract.
Don felt the internet did well because of the IETF process (not the IETF per se) and created this fund to keep that "pure". Ie it wouldn't need corporate sponsors. He though the money wouold be used for workshops, research grants what have you.
When ICANN reared it's ugly head Mike Roberts convinced congress to give him the money to build internet2 in the US. Never mind that people all over the world paid into that fund.
It's an overpriced testbed that has absolutely nothing to do with reality or what the next version of the Internet will be.
Some care to explain (Score:5, Interesting)
If only ... (Score:2, Interesting)
Now look at what we have. A dozen groups trying to do their own thing a dozen different ways with a dozen different technologies. Some say the way the internet evolved is its greatest feature while i say it is its worst.
Internet2 is connected to the Dorms Network (Score:1, Interesting)
Put in google.com (not a member of the Internet2 consortium)
1 gigagate1 (128.112.128.114) 0.498 ms 0.289 ms 0.265 ms
2 vgate1 (128.112.12.22) 0.483 ms 0.319 ms 0.305 ms
3 patriotgate (204.153.48.14) 0.989 ms 0.976 ms 0.917 ms
4 g-4-1.hlb-c2.patmedia.net (24.225.237.173) 1.276 ms 0.838 ms 0.978 ms
5 reserved.above.net.48.184.208.in-addr.arpa (208.184.48.197) 2.612 ms 2.689 ms 2.943 ms
6 so-0-2-0.mpr2.dca2.us.above.net (64.125.26.105) 8.615 ms 43.063 ms 67.368 ms
7 xe-1-1-0.er2.iad10.above.net (64.125.26.242) 8.484 ms 9.012 ms 8.725 ms
8 xe-0-0-0.er1.iad10.above.net (64.125.26.233) 9.155 ms 8.583 ms 8.600 ms
9 above-google-1.iad10.us.above.net (64.125.13.154) 10.160 ms 9.032 ms 9.015 ms
10 216.239.48.108 (216.239.48.108) 9.210 ms 216.239.48.112 (216.239.48.112) 9.222 ms 216.239.48.108 (216.239.48.108) 9.129 ms
11 209.85.252.165 (209.85.252.165) 27.414 ms 216.239.46.224 (216.239.46.224) 36.738 ms 209.85.252.165 (209.85.252.165) 27.958 ms
12 72.14.236.27 (72.14.236.27) 39.443 ms 72.14.238.89 (72.14.238.89) 27.583 ms 66.249.95.126 (66.249.95.126) 9.970 ms
13 64.233.175.26 (64.233.175.26) 26.073 ms 38.275 ms 64.233.175.42 (64.233.175.42) 28.016 ms
14 py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99) 27.984 ms 29.294 ms 27.645 ms
Put in mit.edu(a member of the Internet2 consortium) in:
1 gigagate1 (128.112.128.114) 0.491 ms 0.335 ms 0.318 ms
2 vgate1 (128.112.12.22) 0.349 ms 0.320 ms 0.310 ms
3 local1.princeton.magpi.net (216.27.98.113) 1.842 ms 2.749 ms 2.306 ms
4 remote.internet2.magpi.net (216.27.100.54) 4.119 ms 3.789 ms 4.243 ms
5 nox300gw1-Vl-110-NoX-INTERNET2.nox.org (192.5.89.221) 8.834 ms 27.282 ms 8.728 ms
6 nox1sumgw1-Vl-803-NoX.nox.org (192.5.89.237) 8.620 ms 8.756 ms 8.609 ms
7 207.210.143.110 (207.210.143.110) 383.144 ms 1030.692 ms 786.370 ms
8 W92-RTR-1-BACKBONE.MIT.EDU (18.168.0.25) 27.733 ms 21.215 ms 20.024 ms
9 WEB.MIT.EDU (18.7.22.69) 20.476 ms 20.206 ms 19.026 ms
Faster access between colleges. Resnet tends to be connected to the internet2 router as well.....