An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was "built wrong," and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. "We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity," says Payne, who calls for a "content-centric approach to networking." Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
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It's easy--and often fun--to pick at "venerable" designs. In the case of the public Internet, though, it's important to remember who designed it and why.
Today's Internet grew out of a U.S. Department of Defense project to design a robust Command and Control network that would be self-healing and could survive the rigors of war, perhaps even the devastation of a nuclear exchange. As such, it does a pretty good job.
The academic community caught on to the Internet pretty early in its life cycle and used it ext
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It's easy--and often fun--to pick at "venerable" designs. In the case of the public Internet, though, it's important to remember who designed it and why.
Today's Internet grew out of a U.S. Department of Defense project to design a robust Command and Control network that would be self-healing and could survive the rigors of war, perhaps even the devastation of a nuclear exchange. As such, it does a pretty good job.
The academic community caught on to the Internet pretty early in its life cycle and used it ext