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Title: Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible
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.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1817115
NSF-PAR ID:
10297962
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Volume:
51
Issue:
2
ISSN:
0146-4833
Page Range / eLocation ID:
18 to 24
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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