Does the Internet need to start fresh?

Have you ever thought about what you'd build in place of the Internet if you could start over from scratch? No TCP/IP requirements, no backwards compatibility, just a full-on global network designed from the ground up to be global. A Stanford University research program, dubbed "Clean Slate", is dreaming of exactly that, and they're asking for help from students and Post-Doctorate researchers.

The project aims to research five key areas crucial to global networks, from architecture down to economics and policy in the interest of building secure and stable next generation infrastructure. If you're an advanced student of networks and heterogeneous systems, the next call for proposals is up this Spring.

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