reply to post by kickoutthejams
Internet 2.0 is actually just a Buzz word which describes the next generation of website designs and interaction (which should really be around web
5.0 or 6.0 now). The technologies that this entails are things such as AJAX, Multimedia, Advanced Flash, and XML based engines that make web sites
look and feel more like desktop applications. It is a broad based term.
Then you're saying that whatever TPTB do is just going to be a minor set back for some time but we'll find a way to get around it to keep the WWW
going as we need it? Keep us posted of ways we can work to get around what may be in the works for us.
What is in the works at this point is anyone's guess. At first it will be haywire because so many programmers will approach it in so many different
ways. There will be a handful (or more) of different ways that will be coming and going, until there is a standard that will begin to be adopted.
At first I imagine TPTB will block off certain websites from access, assuming the network admins are lazy, you can expect they are doing it by
deleting those websites from their DNS lists, which means if you type in the domain name, their servers will not know which IP address they correspond
to. So to get around this we will have independent people running their own DNS servers that update directly from one of the main root servers, or
something that is close enough to it.
Once that is occurring and TPTB realize that the DNS deletion scenario is fruitless, the will start to most likely block IP's on the network level.
rather than having the whole list and taking out what they -don't- want you to visit, they will create a list of sites they -will- let you visit. So
anything not on the list gets immediate packet dropped. This is when the real issues begin for normal people. IP's will be blocked all over the net,
and you will be cut off entirely from those servers. This is when we will have to come up with an entirely new solution.
Without putting to much thought into this, I would expect it to probably start with Dial up services where you would be calling computer to computer
(assuming VoIP communication is also being blocked). The computers on the other end will cache as many sites as they can, and will trade their site
cache with other computers that have cache's of other sites. Forums like these will go back to the BBS type forums of long ago, and communications
will take much longer. In the begining it will be very frustrating if not impossible for unskilled users to access and use these systems.
As time goes on and programmers think more into this scenario I see the dial up systems moving to chained wireless hubs setup by home users. As this
goes further into mainstream we may see Wide access Wireless systems covering miles of territory that link together. This would be the beginnings of
the "New" network.
This again is with no real sitting down and completely thinking through all the different scenarios and will depend heavily on how far this goes.
It will be interesting to say the least to see how it all evolves.