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Datagram Forwarding Considered HarmfulUnstructured conditional branching is an operationally sufficient mechanism to write any program, and places no constraints on the flow of control. Similarly, datagram routing is an operationally sufficient mechanism to implement wide are networking, and places few constraints on the flow of information.Computer Science long ago moved past reliance on unstructured programming. Is it time to reevaluate our reliance on unstructured networking? Datagram Forwarding Considered Harmful Read me on BLOG@CACM
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Was the Internet A Mistake?In 2021 a group of 18 emminent network researchers put their names on a white paper, the topic of which was how to add new services to the public Internet. The approach they championed made this fundamental assumption:
Prisoners Of Our Own Device |
How We Ruined The InternetIn this paper we examine an assumption that underpinned the development of the Internet architecture, namely that a loosely synchronous point-to-point datagram delivery service could adequately meet the needs of all network applications, including those which deliver content and services to a mass audience at global scale. We examine how the inability of the Networking community to provide a public and affordable mechanism to support such asynchronous point-to-multipoint applications led to the development of private overlay infrastructure, namely CDNs and Cloud networks, whose architecture stands at odds with the Open Data Networking goals of the early Internet advocates. We argue that the contradiction between those initial goals and the monopolistic commercial imperatives of hypergiant overlay infrastructure operators is an important reason for the apparent contradiction posed by the negative impact of their most profitable applications (e.g., social media) and strategies (e.g., targeted advertisement).How We Ruined The Internet Micah Beck, Terry Moore arXiv:2209.03482306.01101, June 2023 Submitted to Communications of the ACM |
Breaking Up A Digital Monopoly
Breaking Up A Digital Monopoly |
How do you pass a test on a computer if you've never used a computer before?"
To get into university, Nigerian students must take an entrance test.
Since 2015, this test has been computer-based, locking out hundreds
of thousands of rural and urban students who have never used
computers in school or at home. A group of volunteers is trying to
bring some of those candidates back.
Abdullahi D. Hassan in The Continent Issue 157, 13 April 2024.
The Hedge Podcast Episode 150: Universal Broadband
A discussion of whether a less synchronous form of broadband connectivity be more cheaply and easily deployed to the entire world.
Deployment Scalability in Exposed Buffer Processing Micah Beck 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2020) Delhi NCR, India, December 10-13, 2020 (Virtual conference) |
IEEE MASS 2020 presentation, December 2020 |
"On The Hourglass Model" Micah Beck Communications of the ACM, July 2019, Vol. 62 No. 7, Pages 48-57. |
Communications of the ACM, July 2019 |
Exposed Buffer Architecture for Continuum Convergence Micah Beck & Terry Moore arXiv:2008.00989, Aug 2020 |
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