A new Internet

There is an article on MSNBC.com reported that several institutions, including Rutgers, Stanford, The National Science Foundation and various government agencies are thinking and exploring the idea of starting a new Internet. This article is kind of related to the article, “Is the Internet Broken?” that Professor Fang had us read for class. Discussions are made about making a completely new network that would require complete user authentication. It would not be a bad idea to build an all-new network system. Almost forty years ago, no one could have imagined the endless number of websites and the countless of transactions and the amount of data that would pass daily. Therefore, the Internet was not build with that perspective in mind. Now the Internet was filled with problems; mainly security is the biggest issue. It’s a never-ending cost to keep patching up problems, so why not just abandon the out-of-date system and make a new system that is capable of today's activities?