US Gov finishes 7yr study

[LeeRyder]

very interesting study done here with good (for us) results and recommendations:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/03/31/tardy.study.ap/index.html

It urged minor technical improvements to secure the system from hackers and prevent outages from natural disasters, such as moving some of the Internet's 13 key traffic-directing computers outside Washington and Los Angeles.

It also recommended those traffic-directing computers continue to be operated by volunteers, organizations and corporations around the world rather than governments. And it advocated dozens of new Internet address suffixes -- similar to ".com" and ".net" -- be introduced each year to allow for new Web sites and e-mail addresses.

chum for the masses