NeTS-Find: Collaborative Research: Postmodern Internetwork Architecture

NeTS-Find：协作研究：后现代互联网架构

• 批准号: 0626949
• 负责人: James Sterbenz
• 金额: $ 20.03万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0626949&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Find; Collaborative; Research; Postmodern

Network-layer innovation has proven surprisingly difficult, for various reasons: existing protocols ignore competing economic interests; also, a few protocols dominate, enabling layer violations that lead to further entrenchment of technologies. Many shortcomings of today's internetwork layer result from its inflexibility with respect to the policies of the stakeholders, namely users and service providers. The consequences of these failings are well-known: various hacks, layering violations, and overloadings are introduced to enforce policies and attempt to get the upper hand in various "tussles". The result is a network that is increasingly brittle, hostile to innovation, vulnerable to attack, and insensitive to concerns about accountability and privacy. The goal of the Postmodern Internetwork Architecture project is to design, implement, and, through daily use, evaluate a minimalist internetwork layer and accompanying auxiliary functionality that anticipates tussles and allows them to be played out in policy space, as opposed to in the packet-forwarding path. The overarching goal of the project is to make a larger portion of the network design space accessible without sacrificing the economy of scale offered by the unified Internet.

事实证明，网络层的创新异常困难，原因有很多：现有协议忽略了相互竞争的经济利益；此外，少数协议占主导地位，导致层违反，导致进一步的技术防御。当今网络层的许多缺点是由于它对利益相关者（即用户和服务提供商）的策略缺乏灵活性。这些失败的后果是众所周知的：引入各种黑客、分层违规和重载来强制执行策略，并试图在各种“争斗”中占上风。其结果是，网络越来越脆弱，对创新充满敌意，容易受到攻击，对问责制和隐私的担忧不敏感。后现代互联网架构项目的目标是设计、实现，并通过日常使用来评估一个极简的互联网层和伴随的辅助功能，这些功能可以预测冲突并允许它们在策略空间中发挥作用，而不是在数据包转发路径中发挥作用。该项目的首要目标是在不牺牲统一Internet提供的规模经济的情况下，使更大一部分网络设计空间可访问。