IBP -- The Internet Backplane Protocol: Two Page Summary
Micah Beck,
James S. Plank and
Terry Moore.
Technical Report UT-CS-98-407, University of Tennessee, November, 1998.
Available via anonymous ftp to cs.utk.edu in
pub/plank/papers/CS-98-407.ps.Z
and CS-98-407.pdf
Abstract
The Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP) is the result of thinking
about storage in non-traditional ways. This paper provides a capsule
summary of IBP including motivation, functionality, and current
status.
The paper is also online as html at
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/IBP.