By Tim Conneally Sept 4, 2009
While many of the FCC's broadband workshops have dealt with current, concrete issues such as the deployment, adoption, and utilization of broadband in the United States, Thursday's FCC workshop took a refreshing departure from the here and now -- which in government practices is the equivalent to three years ago -- and spent time discussing the ideas that could potentially change what we know as the Internet. One of the questions in the discussion was, "What might the Internet architecture look like in ten to twenty years, beyond incremental changes like speed increases?" FCC Chief Technologist Jon Peha moderated the talks, and raised the specific question under this heading: "Is it possible to have multiple 'Internets' running simultaneously using different protocols and maybe even serving different purposes; and if so, is this a new product line for service providers?" "Whether or not it comes to pass, it is clearly a possibility," David D. Clark, Professor and Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab replied, "There are people in the research community who deeply believe in it. They think that the ability to take the physical resources, the routers, the circuits, etc., and virtualize them in the same way that we virtualize a machine so that you can then run different...what today we would call 'internets,' -- different architectures -- on different slices is the way to preserve flexibility in the future.
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