[81869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lixia Zhang)
Fri Jul 1 12:19:13 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050701.055426.5286.303649@webmail26.lax.untd.com>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:17:04 -0700
To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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@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@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
