TY - JOUR
T1 - Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible
AU - Balakrishnan, Hari
AU - Banerjee, Sujata
AU - Cidon, Israel
AU - Culler, David
AU - Estrin, Deborah
AU - Katz-Bassett, Ethan
AU - Krishnamurthy, Arvind
AU - McCauley, Murphy
AU - McKeown, Nick
AU - Panda, Aurojit
AU - Ratnasamy, Sylvia
AU - Rexford, Jennifer
AU - Schapira, Michael
AU - Shenker, Scott
AU - Stoica, Ion
AU - Tennenhouse, David
AU - Vahdat, Amin
AU - Zegura, Ellen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - There is now a significant and growing functional gap between the public Internet, whose basic architecture has remained unchanged for several decades, and a new generation of more sophisticated private networks. To address this increasing divergence of functionality and overcome the Internet's architectural stagnation, we argue for the creation of an Extensible Internet (EI) that supports in-network services that go beyond best-effort packet delivery. To gain experience with this approach, we hope to soon deploy both an experimental version (for researchers) and a prototype version (for early adopters) of EI. In the longer term, making the Internet extensible will require a community to initiate and oversee the effort; this paper is the first step in creating such a community.
AB - There is now a significant and growing functional gap between the public Internet, whose basic architecture has remained unchanged for several decades, and a new generation of more sophisticated private networks. To address this increasing divergence of functionality and overcome the Internet's architectural stagnation, we argue for the creation of an Extensible Internet (EI) that supports in-network services that go beyond best-effort packet delivery. To gain experience with this approach, we hope to soon deploy both an experimental version (for researchers) and a prototype version (for early adopters) of EI. In the longer term, making the Internet extensible will require a community to initiate and oversee the effort; this paper is the first step in creating such a community.
KW - internet architecture
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U2 - 10.1145/3464994.3464998
DO - 10.1145/3464994.3464998
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105858542
SN - 0146-4833
VL - 51
SP - 18
EP - 24
JO - Computer Communication Review
JF - Computer Communication Review
IS - 2
ER -