from Hacker News

China’s controversial mission to reinvent the internet

by Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 on 3/28/20, 5:42 AM with 2 comments

  • by Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 on 3/28/20, 5:43 AM

    Some excerpts:

    > The New IP presentation paints a picture of a digital world in 2030 where virtual reality, holographic communication and remote surgery are ubiquitous — and for which our current network is unfit. Traditional IP protocol is described as “unstable” and “vastly insufficient”, with “lots of security, reliability and configuration problems”.

    > The documents suggest a new network should instead have a “top-to-bottom design” and promote data-sharing schemes across governments “thereby serving AI, Big Data and all kinds of other applications”. Many experts fear that under New IP, internet service providers, usually state-owned, would have control and oversight of every device connected to the network and be able to monitor and gate individual access.