Internet designers get second bash at Internet

THE GOVERNMENT contractor involved in the creation of the Internet, has been given $10 million to plan a new one.

The National Science Foundation said BBN Technologies will oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI.

The four year project into the Web's underlying architecture, will design a clean-slate approach in a bid to fix some of the security, mobility and other problems that have appeared since the Internet's birth.

BBN won the contract to build a network linking machines at four universities called ARPAnet which grew to include the millions that form the Internet today.

It also developed the @ symbol and did most of the groundwork for the email system we know and love.

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