Internet Architecture

• Why architectural complexity is like body fat - food for thought
• World of Ends or What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else
• The end of end-to-end (David Reed)
• Will The Real "End-End Principle" Please Stand Up?, J. Noel, 2002.
• Warriors of the Net, a visual introduction to packet routing
• Russ Haynal's ISP Page
• Internet Architecture: Meta Diagram
• Next-Generation Internet Initiative (NGI) white papers for workshop
• Designing the Next Generation of IP Networks
• OWEN/NERO Bandwidth Audit, a nice survey of traffic measurements, general Internet architecture
• Internet architecture: pointers to maps, tables with backbone speeds, NAP troubles, ...
• ep.net: catalogues NAPs
• Boardwatch large ISP survey, with throughput performance metrics
• Current Internet Architecture

• Unfortunately the existing Internet is no longer an implementaion of the existing Internet architecture. That's why we have a problem.

  (Brian Carpenter, IETF list, Nov. 30, 1999)
• Network interconnects map
• Current operational status of PSINET
• Example of pricing for dedicated (permanent) Internet access (Netcom)
• The Death of the Internet As We Know It, Economist, August 2001.
• Pricing for on-line services and ISPs
• Carpenter et al. discuss Internet architecture principles
• Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
• a comprehensive list of Internet providers all over the world
• Cogent Communications offers a non-shared 100 Mb/s connection at $1,000 month (Oct. 2000)
• Resources for Network Operators & ISPs
• Optical Internet workshop summary

New architectures

FARA: Reorganizing the Addressing Architecture. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Archi- tecture (FDNA), Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003, pp. 313- 321.

Hari Balakrishnan, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sylvia Rat- nasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Michael Walfish. A Lay- ered Naming Architecture for the Internet. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 30 - September 3, 2004, pp. 343-352.

Andreas Jonsson, Mats Folke and Bengt Ahlgren. The Split Naming/Forwarding Network Architecture. Proc. First Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop (SNCNW), Arlandas- tad, Sweden, September 8-10, 2003.

Ion Stoica, Daniel Adkins, Shelley Zhuang, Scott Shenker and Sonesh Surana. Internet Indirection Infrastructure. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, August 2002, pp. 73-88.

Daniel Adkins, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Adrian Perrig and Ion Stoica. Towards a More Functional and Secure Network In- frastructure. Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-03-1242, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2003.