US Govt Creating New P2P Network to 'Supersede the Web'

The Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS) will solve technical problems with existing P2P networks such as Gnutella and KaZaA and speed up searches and information transfer over the internet. P2P isn't always a dirty acronym it seems with news that the US government - that's right the Feds - is currently funding the development of a new P2P network to someday even supersede the web itself. Dubbed the Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS), the goal of the P2P network is to speed up searches and information transfer over the internet and to discourage DDOS attacks by hackers. </img>


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