Communications of the ACM
Future Internet Aims to Sever Links With Servers
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The European Union is funding a new Internet architecture called Pursuit that is designed to eliminate the need to connect to servers and enable content to be shared more efficiently. Pursuit would overhaul the existing structure of the Internet's IP layer, which links isolated networks.
Pursuit's researchers say the new architecture would enable a more social and intelligent system that would enable users to obtain information without needing direct access to the servers where content is initially stored. Individual computers would be able to copy content received to enable other users to access data from multiple locations other than the original source, allowing all online content to be shared in the peer-to-peer manner used by some file-sharing sites. Pursuit would enable the Internet to meet rising global demand, eliminate the problem of server crashes, and improve user ability to control access to their private information.
"Our system focuses on the way in which society itself uses the Internet to get hold of that content," says the University of Cambridge's Dirk Trossen. "It puts information first."
Pursuit researchers hope that in the future, online searches will rely on Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) instead of Uniform Resource Locators, and these highly specific URIs would enable the system to determine the information or content.
From University of Cambridge
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