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.

In a recent presentation at a standards event, someone cited a quote from Vint Cerf that they made a mistake binding IP to TCP with the pseudo-header. Supposedly not doing this would make it easier to solve some of the current problems facing the Internet, such as mobility. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. In fact, the evidence points in the opposite direction.

1. The pseudo-header

John Day, in this interview by Richard Bennett of High Tech Forum, lays out the elements of RINA at a high level, discussees the nature of the RINA transition, and assesses the state of three large-scale RINA trials in Europe.