Re: [BLUG] video on new network model

Hey, Jeff, thanks for sending this on to us.

He also gives an awesome history on the evolution of networking to
bring this whole "dissemination based networking" into a clearer
context.

I'm trying to put together a curriculum for a 12 day class I may be
giving (unless I come up with a better idea for a class by May) on the
history of computers, and this definitely helped flesh out my
understanding of the history of networking and get a clear idea of
what the new problems in networking are and where we may be moving in
the future.

Thanks!

Simón

On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 9:03 AM, jwelty <Jeffrey.Welty@wishard.edu> wrote:
> Linux-friendly scientist and contributor to tcpdump and traceroute tools
> gives a talk at Google, "A New Way to Look at Networking."
>

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&q=engedu
>
> Some ideas presented in the talk about his new network model:
> * data-oriented "dissemination" network instead of node-oriented internet
> * every chunk of data on the network is associated with a name, not an
> IP address (the data matters, not the supplier)
> * data is decentralized and ubiquitous; data doesn't live at one
> specific location
> * literally anything that can move bits can be a part of the network
> * no more network congestion
> * security, trust and integrity are derived from the data itself, not
> from where it supposedly originated or the channel it arrived on
> * eliminating phishing, pharming and spam would be trivial
> * SSL would become irrelevant
> * finer grained control over traffic, including a way to prioritize
> incoming traffic - example: email and gaming traffic in one household
> can be arranged so that email always gets delivered first before any
> gaming traffic starts or continues. currently there's no way to do this.
> * today's protocols are designed for a point-to-point conversation
> between two applications on two machines. instead, the new network
> should distribute data much like a radio tower would broadcast radio
> signals ((multi)point-to-multipoint); instead of many copies of the same
> data going to recipients one at a time, a single copy goes to every
> recipient simultaneously.
>
>
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