Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible

TitleRevitalizing the public internet by making it extensible
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsBalakrishnan, H., Banerjee S., Cidon I., Culler D. E., Estrin D., Katz-Basset E. B., Krishnamurthy A., McCauley M., McKeown N., Panda A., Ratnasamy S., Rexford J. L., Schapira M., Shenker S. J., Stoica I., Tennenhouse D. L., Vahdat A. M., & Zegura E.. W.
Published inACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Volume51
Issue2
Page(s)18-24
Date Published04/2021
KeywordsExtensible, Internet
Abstract

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.

Acknowledgment

The authors gratefully acknowledge support from DARPA contract HR001120C0107 and NSF grants 1836872, 18311698, and 1817115. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.

URLhttps://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/sites/default/files/localonly/Shenker-Extensible-Internet-2021.pdf
DOI10.1145/3464994.3464998
ICSI Research Group

Extensible Internet