Re: Internet 2020 Goals

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Wed, 28 May 2014 08:05 UTC

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On Tue 27/May/2014 20:00:58 +0200 Joe Touch wrote:
> On 5/26/2014 7:15 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> At one time, NSF and the National Academy of Sciences used to publish
>> "research agendas" for networking - when did this stop?
> 
> It didn't, and all such reports (including 2020 visions) have had the
> same amount of impact (lots of heat, but no light IMO).
> 
> Unless the IETF is prepared to put up research money to back it up*,
> making statements about the future of the Internet is unproductive
> prognostication.

Yet they spend some bucks on it:

Moving towards a more robust, secure and agile Internet
NSF announces $15 million in awards to develop, deploy and test future Internet architectures
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131248&org=CISE&from=news

Ale