Perhaps I'm out of the loop, but this is the first time I've heard of such a thing: Researchers at several universities (as well as nameless and faceless members of the Department of Defense) are proponents of a type of "clean slate" initiative, basically a rebuilding of the internet intended to address issues of stability and security. Of course, these ideas—should they be supported financially and otherwise—would take over a decade to manifest themselves in any meaningful way, but there are already working prototypes:
Princeton already runs a smaller experimental network called PlanetLab, while Carnegie Mellon has a clean-slate project called 100 x 100.
I wonder if Wikipedia has any info on these two projects...
Link to AP article (on the Ocala, FL Star-Banner website... People on Reddit link strange sites)
