[ga] Military is building it's own internet... Vint Cerf poo-poo's it...

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  Well folks it seems that the pentagon doesn't like the current
internet.
No wonder!  So it is building it's own.
See:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/technology/13warnet.html?ei=5094&en=27b47c63b0a8e037&hp=&ex=1100408400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=

 Yet Vint Cerf [ Self appointed Father of the internet ] poo-poo's it.
[ No surprise here IMHO ]
Excerpt:
"Skeptics say the costs are staggering and the technological hurdles
huge.

Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and a Pentagon consultant
on the war net, said he wondered if the military's dream was realistic.
"I want to make sure what we realize is vision and not hallucination,"
Mr. Cerf said.

"This is sort of like Star Wars, where the policy was, 'Let's go out and

build this system,' and technology lagged far behind,'' he said.
"There's
nothing wrong with having ambitious goals. You just need to temper
them with physics and reality."

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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