usa cames along with two projects. find and geni.
again in the boat: nsf and bolt, beranek & newman, in short bbn. kind of funny to see that old clubs are lining up again to play the game once more.

tomonori aoyama, who is involved in the japanese net development estimates, maybe in the us they believe that they are on their way to build arpanet2 (audio/mpeg, 424 KB) , maybe.

for the large scale network testbed: first three years: $23Million (according to aoyama's talk at the itu-t meeting 12 - 13.05)

voices whisper that also larry roberts seems to come to geneva more often lately, promoting "anagran, "eliminating ip network congestion". in the 1970s he was very successfull by pulling through his x.25 protocol, former called telenet protocol.

with planet labs they are planning to create a space where scientists from europe, us and japan can come together, think and experiment with their new toys.

japan with its akari (audio/mpeg, 343 KB) project promots not just a switching capacity of petabit/s but also a clean slate design; and if it is just got for to get loose, not to worry too much about backwards compatibility for a moment. loose here also means considering circuit switching and the end of datagrams and packet switching.
akari project: 2bill yen

finally europe:
7th framework research dedicated to the network of the future: worth €2bill, says aoyama. not to forget the different version of the géant research network. 2008 géant3 should appear.

a lot of money, curious to watch the political game to it.