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A very interesting paper (must read) to get
a useful insight into the philosophy behind the basic Internet design. Most of
the goals for which the Internet was originally designed, no longer apply (or
more aptly, only minimally apply) and questions arise as to whether the current
Internet design is really the appropriate.
Such questions have been raised in the
paper, "Is IP going to
take over the world (of communications)?", Pablo Molinero-Fernandez, Nick McKeown and
Hui Zhang. This
paper can in this series.
Abstract
The Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP, was first
proposed fifteen years ago. It was developed by
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), and has been used widely in military
and commercial systems. While there have been
papers and specifications that describe how the
protocols work, it is sometimes difficult to
deduce from these why the protocol is as it is.
For example, the Internet protocol is based on a
connectionless or datagram mode of service. The
motivation for this has been greatly misunderstood.This paper attempts to capture some of the early reasoning which shaped the Internet
protocols.
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