TY - GEN
T1 - A Public Option for the Core
AU - Harchol, Yotam
AU - Bergemann, Dirk
AU - Feamster, Nick
AU - Friedman, Eric
AU - Krishnamurthy, Arvind
AU - Panda, Aurojit
AU - Ratnasamy, Sylvia
AU - Schapira, Michael
AU - Shenker, Scott
N1 - Funding Information:
While this does not answer the question about our sanity, we hope it provides some hope for the Internet’s future stability. Acknowledgements We would like to thank our shepherd David Wetherall, our anonymous referees, and Peter Cramton for helpful comments. We also thank Lloyd Brown and Ian Rodney, UC Berkeley students who helped bring this paper to fruition. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Intel, VMware, and Ericsson, as well as from NSF grant 1817115.
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© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/7/30
Y1 - 2020/7/30
N2 - This paper is focused not on the Internet architecture-as defined by layering, the narrow waist of IP, and other core design principles-but on the Internet infrastructure, as embodied in the technologies and organizations that provide Internet service. In this paper we discuss both the challenges and the opportunities that make this an auspicious time to revisit how we might best structure the Internet's infrastructure. Currently, the tasks of transit-between-domains and last-mile-delivery are jointly handled by a set of ISPs who interconnect through BGP. In this paper we propose cleanly separating these two tasks. For transit, we propose the creation of a "public option"for the Internet's core backbone. This public option core, which complements rather than replaces the backbones used by large-scale ISPs, would (i) run an open market for backbone bandwidth so it could leverage links offered by third-parties, and (ii) structure its terms-of-service to enforce network neutrality so as to encourage competition and reduce the advantage of large incumbents.
AB - This paper is focused not on the Internet architecture-as defined by layering, the narrow waist of IP, and other core design principles-but on the Internet infrastructure, as embodied in the technologies and organizations that provide Internet service. In this paper we discuss both the challenges and the opportunities that make this an auspicious time to revisit how we might best structure the Internet's infrastructure. Currently, the tasks of transit-between-domains and last-mile-delivery are jointly handled by a set of ISPs who interconnect through BGP. In this paper we propose cleanly separating these two tasks. For transit, we propose the creation of a "public option"for the Internet's core backbone. This public option core, which complements rather than replaces the backbones used by large-scale ISPs, would (i) run an open market for backbone bandwidth so it could leverage links offered by third-parties, and (ii) structure its terms-of-service to enforce network neutrality so as to encourage competition and reduce the advantage of large incumbents.
KW - Internet infrastructure
KW - Internet transit
KW - Network neutrality
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U2 - 10.1145/3387514.3405875
DO - 10.1145/3387514.3405875
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094837994
T3 - SIGCOMM 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
SP - 377
EP - 389
BT - SIGCOMM 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2020 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, SIGCOMM 2020
Y2 - 10 August 2020 through 14 August 2020
ER -