Internet-0
Internet-0 is a project whose purpose is to find ways of networking a variety of devices, through a variety of physical means. Raffi Krikorian (http://www.bitwaste.com/), once a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, led the hardware and software development of Internet-0. A Scientific American article Krikorian co-authored (cited in "References") describes the origin of the name 'Internet-0'".
- At an opening event for the Media House, one of the leaders of the high-speed Internet-2 project was on hand. He kept asking how fast data could be sent through the building. Someone reminded him that lightbulbs do not need to watch movies at broadband speeds and joked that the network of everyday devices was part of an "Internet-Zero," not Internet-2. The name stuck.
Seven principles
The Scientific American article Krikorian co-authored (cited in "References") describes seven principles that define Internet-0.
- Each Internet-0 device uses the Internet Protocol.
- "Implementing the communications protocols jointly rather than separately" simplifies software.
- Two Internet-0 devices "do not require the existence of a third one in order to operate".
- Each Internet-0 device "is responsible for keeping track of its own identity".
- "The use of big bits allows the data that make up a packet to be represented in the same way no mater what physical medium conveys them."
- Internet-0 uses open standards.
External links
References
- "The Internet of Things: The principles that gave rise to the Internet are now leading to a new kind of network of everyday devices, an 'Internet-0' ", an article by Neil Gershenfeld, Raffi Krikorian, and Danny Cohen on pages seventy-six to eighty-one of the October, 2004 issue of Scientific American