NetSE: Small: Incorporating Telecommunications Policy and Economics into Internet Architecture

该项目的目标是将电信政策和经济的关键要素纳入互联网架构。由于技术、经济和公共政策的力量，互联网最初的设计原则——分层和端到端——正日益遭到违背。Internet服务提供商正在部署服务质量机制，但只允许将其用于出售给自己订户的某些应用程序。一些互联网服务提供商已经使用深度数据包检测技术来实现流量管理实践，从而限制或阻止点对点应用程序。为了抵消这种恶化，本项目将提出一种跨学科的方法来更新互联网架构原则，以考虑电信政策和经济学。该项目将识别端到端和分层模型的缺陷，这些缺陷无法承受网络的技术、经济和法律力量；修改这些模式，使其促进良好的技术设计，适当地应对经济压力，并鼓励有利于社会的有益结果；并验证这些新模型，并通过将它们应用于三个案例研究——网络中立性、流量管理和服务质量——来说明它们的潜在用途。这项研究将产生广泛的影响。私家侦探正在开设一门关于？互联网与公共政策？这项研究将通过向美国国会的工作人员通报电信问题的技术方面，并通过为网络研究界制定一个架构框架来帮助他们考虑网络经济和法律的影响，从而帮助弥合通信立法者和网络研究人员之间存在的鸿沟。

The goal of this project is to incorporate key elements of telecommunication policy and economics into Internet architecture. As a result of technical, economic and public policy forces, the Internet's original design principles -- layering and end-to-end -- are increasingly violated. Internet Service Providers are deploying quality of service mechanisms, but only allowing their use for certain applications sold to their own subscribers. Some Internet Service Providers have used deep packet inspection techniques to implement traffic management practices that throttle or block peer-to-peer applications. To counteract this deterioration, this project will propose an interdisciplinary approach to update the Internet architectural principles to account for telecommunications policy and economics. The project will identify the flaws of the end-to-end and layering models that are not withstanding the technical, economic, and legal forces upon networking; modify these models so that they promote good technical design, respond appropriately to economic pressures, and encourage beneficial outcomes that benefit society; and validate these new models and illustrate their potential use by applying them to three case studies -- net neutrality, traffic management, and Quality of Service.This research will have a broad impact. The P.I. is developing an undergraduate course on ?The Internet and Public Policy?. This research will help bridge the gulf that exists between communication lawmakers and networking researchers by informing staff members in the United States Congress about the technical aspects of telecommunication issues, and by developing an architectural framework for the networking research community to help them consider impacts of network economics and law.