Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible

Hari Balakrishnan; Sujata Banerjee; Israel Cidon; David Culler; Deborah Estrin; Ethan Katz-Bassett; Arvind Krishnamurthy; Murphy McCauley; Nick McKeown; Aurojit Panda; Sylvia Ratnasamy; Jennifer Rexford; Michael Schapira; Scott Shenker; Ion Stoica; David Tennenhouse; Amin Vahdat; Ellen Zegura

doi:10.1145/3464994.3464998

Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible

Hari Balakrishnan, Sujata Banerjee, Israel Cidon, David Culler, Deborah Estrin, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Murphy McCauley, Nick McKeown, Aurojit Panda, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Jennifer Rexford, Michael Schapira, Scott Shenker^*, Ion Stoica, David Tennenhouse, Amin Vahdat, Ellen Zegura

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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
Pages (from-to)	18-24
Number of pages	7
Journal	Computer Communication Review
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3464994.3464998
State	Published - Apr 2021

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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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Balakrishnan, H., Banerjee, S., Cidon, I., Culler, D., Estrin, D., Katz-Bassett, E., Krishnamurthy, A., McCauley, M., McKeown, N., Panda, A., Ratnasamy, S., Rexford, J., Schapira, M., Shenker, S., Stoica, I., Tennenhouse, D., Vahdat, A., & Zegura, E. (2021). Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible. Computer Communication Review, 51(2), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3464994.3464998

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