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IOHK is a technology company commited to using peer-to-peer innovations to deliver decentralized financial services. The company is leading the Cardano project, an ambitious effort to develop a 3rd generation cryptocurrency that can solve the scalability and interoperability needs of current cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.

One goal of RINA is to distill a theory based on fundamental principles, on what the problem tells us. Largely, this has come down to finding the invariances. The RINA Reference Model describes that theory, as we now understand it. We have found that by not breaking the invariances we don’t encounter “devils in the details,” but quite the opposite, the theory tends to yield simpler results for thorny problems. But we are always testing it. Trying to uncover things we haven’t seen.

Paul Budde, managing director of Paul Budde Communication, recently published a short article on why "We urgently need a new Internet". In the article Mr.

Pete Cladingbowl, interviewed by Martin Geddes, thinks that "The Internet needs a rebuild. We don’t need to throw it away, but rather need to overlay it with new structures. For instance, a basic structure is when we connect to it, we are forced to be connected to everything.

OCARINA (Optimizations to Comple Adoption of RINA), is the name of a new research project from the University of Oslo (UiO) that has just been funded by the Norwegian government, under its Toppforsk program.