The Internets We Did Not Build

Presented by David Clark

This lecture is part of the IPAM workshop Beyond Internet MRA: Networks of Networks and is cosponsored by The Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA (IDRE) and the Computer Science Department at UCLA (UCLA-CSD).

Time and Location:

Monday, November 3, 2008, 4:30 pm
Haines Hall, Room 39 (maps and directions)

Refreshments will be served at Haines Hall at 4:00 pm
Reception in the IPAM building will follow the lecture

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Abstract:

As the network research community considers design options for a future global network, we have come to realize that some of the original design decisions, while effective, were not the only way to go. In fact, we could have taken different forks in the road as we designed, and ended up in very different places, perhaps with a network that is equally effective at supporting a wide range of applications, but different in other ways. In this talk, I will identify a few of these alternate designs, and describe how the network they would induce would differ from what we see today. In doing so, I will try to illustrate both the nature of the design process and the variation in outcomes.

The Speaker:

Since the mid 70s, Dr. David Clark has been leading the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet Activities Board. His current research looks at re-definition of the architectural underpinnings of the Internet, and the relation of technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy considerations. He is helping the U.S. National Science Foundation organize their Future Internet Design program. Dr. Clark is co-director of the MIT Communications Futures Program, a project for industry collaboration and coordination along the communications value chain.

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