The 36th IPP Symposium
Do We Need A Next-Generation Internet?
The Internet has been a remarkable success by almost any metric. It has changed the way we communicate with colleagues and friends, whether through email, instant messages, message boards, or voice-over-IP. It has changed the way we conduct business, from Amazon to online advertising to the mobile "Starbucks office". Adding in innovations like web search, online maps, file sharing, and Internet poker and it seems as though the late 90s day-trader's slogan that, "The Internet Changes Everything", might actually be true.
Yet there are networking tasks that the Internet was never designed to perform. The Internet's "best-effort" service model was not designed for the reliability we expect in the telephone network. Its unicast addressing model is unsuitable for replacing the massive multicast demands of the television network. Routing based on IP addresses that reflect physical topology makes mobility difficult. The stateless nature of web servers makes web applications difficult to write. Perhaps most worrisome, security has been an afterthought at every layer.
Some argue that these shortcomings demand a new design for a next-generation Internet. Others point out that, while the Internet may not have been designed with these applications in mind, it is being used for every one of them. Perhaps there is no need for fundamental change. In this symposium, we'll look at the applications that are pushing the Internet in these new directions, and consider the case of Evolution vs. Revolution.
Hosted by Assistant Professor John Jannotti
Confirmed speakers include:
Steve Resnick, US Microsoft Technology Centers
Erich M. Nahum, IBM T.J. Watson Center
Prem Gopalan, Mazu Networks
Robert Blumofe, Akamai
Dave Andersen, CMU
