----- Forwarded message from "Bill St.Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca> ----- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:27:53 -0500 From: "Bill St.Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca> Subject: [CAnet - news] A new vision for the future of the Internet To: <news@canarie.ca> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Making the world (of communications) a different place Report of a working session of the End-to-End Research Group For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 4 Optical Internet program web site at http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html ------------------------------------------- http://www.ir.bbn.com/~craig/e2e-vision.pdf January, 2005 Version 4 3/24/05 This version for preliminary release David D. Clark, Craig Partridge, Robert T. Braden (chair), Bruce Davie Sally Floyd, Van Jacobson, Dina Katabi, Greg Minshall, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Roscoe, Ion Stoica, John Wroclawski and Lixia Zhang This report is the product of a discussion held at the January 2005 meeting of the End-to-End Research Group, which is part of the Internet Research Task Force. The challenge presented to the group for this discussion was the following: How might the computing and communications world be materially different in 10 to 15 years, and how might we define a research agenda that would get us to that world? There were a number of motivations for this discussion. The Internet itself arose because of a visionary answer to a question such as this one. Through an alignment of visionary leaders, the research community, and funding agencies, there was a coherent, long-term effort to build a running prototype of a major new communications system. That effort led to a number of new research results; results that substantially expanded and changed our understanding of the communications field. The networking field does not have a shared vision of the future today. Perhaps as a result, much of the research we see today lacks a motivation to deepen or broaden our understanding of communications. Much of today's research is felt to be incremental (in the sense of "least publishable increment") and lacking a long-term motivation. At the same time, the United States' National Science Foundation is interested in hearing about important focus areas that they might fund. While focus areas are some steps short of a shared vision, we thought that a discussion of visions of the future would help refine what the focus areas might be, and could even be a vehicle to bring the research community to a common objective. In this context, the participants at the meeting speculated about possible visions of the future, and whether the time was right for a focused research push to move us toward that future. The next several sections talk about some of the visions. The report concludes with some thoughts about directions we might take. [....] ------------------------------------- To SUBSCRIBE: send a blank e-mail message to news-join@canarie.ca To UNSUBSCRIBE: send a blank email message to news-leave@canarie.ca ------------------------------------- These news items and comments are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the CANARIE board or management. ----------- Bill.St.Arnaud@canarie.ca _______________________________________________ news mailing list news@canarie.ca http://lists.canarie.ca/mailman/listinfo/news ----- End forwarded message -----