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Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible

Authors:

Hari Balakrishnan,

Sujata Banerjee,

Deborah Estrin,

Ethan Katz-Bassett,

Arvind Krishnamurthy,

Murphy McCauley,

Sylvia Ratnasamy,

Jennifer Rexford,

Michael Schapira,

David Tennenhouse,

Amin Vahdat, and

Ellen ZeguraAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 51, Issue 2

Pages 18 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/3464994.3464998

Published: 10 May 2021 Publication History

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.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 51, Issue 2

April 2021

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DOI:10.1145/3464994

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