Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

Fri Jul 1 16:17:04 UTC 2005

On Jul 1, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

> Yeah, I saw that...
>
> With all respect to Dave, and not to sound too skeptical,
> but we're pretty far along in our current architecture to
> "fundamentally" change, don't you think (emphasis on
> fundamentally)?
>
> - ferg

Many people probably share similar concern.

My personal view (I've left MIT 16 years, so no relation to Clark):
- I believe we all wish the Internet architecture, as we have now, has
   some problems here or there.
- But how to make it better? Quoting Dave, looking one incremental step
   each time is unlikely the best way to proceed.
- To see see more clearly where we should head to, one can try
   a 2-step approach:
   + if one gets all one's wishes: how would we want the architecture
      to look like, given what we know today (that we didn't 30 years  
ago)?
   + if/once one gets that question answered, we can then tackle the  
next
     question of how to get there from here.

my 2 cents,
Lixia

> -- Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:
>
> I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that we could benefit from  
> some
> fundamental changes to Internet architecture.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html? 
> tw=wn_6techhead
>
> Dave Clark is proposing that the NSF should fund a new demonstration
> network that implements a fundamentally new architecture at many  
> levels.
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>