[81849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Fri Jul 1 06:54:21 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050701103510.GA30436@srv01.cluenet.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:48:06 +0100
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> > Dave Clark is proposing that the NSF should fund a new demonstration
> > network that implements a fundamentally new architecture at many
levels.
> The real work is done elsewhere. There _are_ commercial ISPs nowadays
> who have 30Gbps (30, not 3) of native IPv6 bandwidth US-EU and can
> provide native IPv6 transit throughout Europe and the US. But no press
> releases.
I think Dave Clark is talking about something more fundamental than
simply IPv6 and also more far reaching. Also, the experience with
retrofitting most of IPv6's new features into IPv4 shows that it
is good to have role models and that is what Dave is proposing.
More information on the new architecture work is here
http://www.isi.edu/newarch/
--Michael Dillon
