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.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 18-24 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Computer Communication Review |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information: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.
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Keywords
- internet architecture