Are we going to have Internet with Caller ID?

 
According to an article by Cheryl Gerber on Miiltary Information Technology, "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing the equivalent of Caller ID for the Internet through a Military Networking Protocol contract awarded to a Lockheed Martin-led industry team.".

See "MilNet-Protocol Goes with the Flow" - here.

"Delivering secure MilNet-Protocol technology will let operators know who is on their networks at all times. “Today’s Internet is based on anonymous flows of data, so we are adding a layer on top of that with user information to make sure the traffic is authorized,” said Mike Briske, Lockheed Martin MilNet-P program manager, C4ISR Systems. “It’s a routing protocol that ties in secure aspects of user attribution to every packet flowing through the network.” Part of the MilNet-P technology is based on Anagran Inc.’s FR-1000 flow-based, network traffic management technology, which processes data by flow rather than individual packets".

Anagran is a provider of equipment that competes with DPI gear. Its CEO, Lawrence Roberts, designed and led the team that developed ARPANET in 1969, and founded Caspian Networks which built similar systems to Anagran.

It is unclear from the (very long) article how this technology could become part of the public, open, internet as it mentions that it it replaces the TCP layer (with TIA-1039 - "QoS Signaling for IP QoS Support" - here). Additional benefits listed - QoS, controlling P2P traffic ("alternative to DPI") and Botnet defense.

Related post - "Google - [Our] TCP Can Do 12% Better" - here.