Workshop: The Future of Internet Research; Berkeley, CA; December, 2003

互联网一直是计算机科学研究领域最值得骄傲的成功故事之一;有远见的研究人员在有远见的资助机构的帮助下，以一种根本的、意想不到的方式改变了世界。 然而，互联网研究（我们指的是集中在互联网和相关网络上的网络研究）现在正处于十字路口，互联网本身现在完全是商业化的，不太容易接受来自研究界的投入。许多研究人员在进化研究（可能会影响基础设施）和革命性研究（几乎肯定不会产生这种影响）之间做出选择。 此外，该领域以外的许多人认为，至少从网络的角度来看，互联网是一个已经解决的问题。 对于该领域的工作人员来说，毫无疑问还有更多的工作要做，但对于这些工作是什么，人们几乎没有达成共识。研讨会将集中在三个主要主题上：我们完成了吗？ 在过去20年中取得了所有进展之后，我们必须问自己，是否还有需要我们注意的技术挑战。 该领域应该关注哪些问题？ 我们如何将我们所知道的正式化？ 虽然互联网研究创造了一个惊人的人工制品，但它几乎没有创造基本的科学基础;互联网设计知识被广泛接受，但缺乏形式化。 我们能创造一种适用于互联网和其他类似网络的网络科学吗？如何最大限度地发挥我们研究的影响力？在早期，互联网研究对部署的基础设施产生了巨大的影响。 现在，许多互联网研究对商业产品几乎没有影响。 如何提高我们研究的影响力？ 什么是进化与革命性研究的正确组合？ 是否有基础设施，如覆盖或开源路由代码，将增加影响？

The Internet has been one of the proudest success stories in computer science research; visionary researchers aided by farsighted funding agencies changed the world in a fundamental, and unexpected, way. However, Internet research (by which we mean networking research focused on the Internet and related networks) is now at a crossroads.The Internet itself is now fully commercial, and less amenable to input from the research community. Many researchers struggle with the choice between evolutionary research (which might influence the infrastructure) and revolutionary research (which will almost definitely not have such impact). Moreover, many outside the field consider the Internet, at least from the networking perspective, to be a solved problem. For those in the field, there is little doubt that there is much more work to be done, but there is little agreement on what that work is.The workshop will focus on three main topics: o Are we done yet? After all the progress that has been made in the last 20 years, we must ask ourselves if there are remaining technical challenges that require our attention. What questions should the field be focusing on? o How can we formalize what we know? While Internet research has created an amazing artifact, it has created little in the way of fundamental scientific foundations; Internet design lore is well accepted, but poorly formalized. Can we create a .science of networking that applies to the Internet and other similar networks? o How do maximize the impact of our research? In the early years, Internet research had a tremendous impact on the deployed infrastructure. Now, much of Internet research has little effect on the commercial offerings. How can we increase the impact of our research? What is the right mix of evolutionary versus revolutionary research? Are there infrastructures, such as overlays or open-source routing code, that would increase the impact?