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[ NNSquad ] Re: More background information on Internet peering and flattening of the Internet and impact on NN
----- Forwarded message from "Bill St. Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud@gmail.com> ----- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:03:17 -0500 From: "Bill St. Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud@gmail.com> Subject: More background information on Internet peering and flattening of the Internet and impact on NN To: 'Lauren Weinstein' <lauren@vortex.com> Lauren: I have been writing on this topic for some time. Your reader of your excellent list may be interested in these perspectives on the issue: http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com/2010/02/personal-perspective-on-evolving.ht ml Recently I was commissioned to write a paper as part of a submission to the FCC Network Neutrality hearings. But after writing the paper I started to realize it might have broader implication beyond network neutrality. A personal perspective on the evolving Internet and Research and Education Networks Abstract Over the past few years the Internet has evolved from an "end-to-end" telecommunications service to a distributed computing information and content infrastructure. In the academic community this evolving infrastructure is often referred to as cyber-infrastructure or eInfrastructure .This evolution in the Internet was predicted by Van Jacobson several years ago and now seems readily evident by recent studies such as the Arbor report indicating that the bulk of Internet traffic is carried over this type of infrastructure as opposed to a general purpose routed Internet/optical network. This evolving Internet is likely to have profound impacts on Internet architectures and business models in the both the academic and commercial worlds. Increasingly traffic will be "local" with connectivity to the nearest cloud, content distribution network and or social network gateway at a local Internet Exchange (IX) point. Network topology and architecture will increasingly be driven by the needs of the applications and content rather than as general purpose infrastructure connecting users and devices. As a consequence the need to deploy to IPv6 addressing or ID/loc split may be superseded by DNS-type such as laye r 7 XML routing. This new Internet will more easily allow the deployment of low carbon infrastructure and create new challenges and opportunities in terms of last mile ownership and network neutrality. Customer owned networks and tools like User Controlled LightPath (UCLP) and Reverse Passive Optical Networks (RPON) may become more relevant in order to allow users to connect directly to the distributed content and application infrastructure at a nearby IX. Research and Education (R&E) networks may play a critical leadership role in developing new Internet business strategies for zero carbon mobile Internet solutions interconnecting next generation multi-channel RF mobile devices to this infrastructure using "white space" and Wifi spectrum. Perhaps ultimately these developments will lay the foundation for a National Public Internet (NPI) where R&E networks deploy transit and/or internet exchanges in smaller communities and cities to support distribution of content and information from not for profit organizations to the general public. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARgRwniJ-qh6ZGdiZ2pyY3RfMjc3NmdmbWd4OWZr&h l=en > -----Original Message----- > From: nnsquad-bounces+bill.st.arnaud=gmail.com@nnsquad.org > [mailto:nnsquad-bounces+bill.st.arnaud=gmail.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf > Of Lauren Weinstein > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:57 PM > To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org > Subject: [ NNSquad ] Markoff NYTimes story on Internet Peering > > > Markoff NYTimes story on Internet Peering > > http://bit.ly/aog7y8 (New York Times) > > --Lauren-- > NNSquad Moderator ----- End forwarded message -----