Monitoring Dave Farber's IP group is always fascinating. Sometimes, I appreciate the insight, sometimes I curse at the screen.
One thing that is coming out of the Net Neutrality discussion is a great use of the analogy of a tree for the role of the Internet. You see, the Internet was built to ride on top of networks and not to be part of a network. Over the top, was the very nature of the architecture and the end points could be considered leaves. If we need to talk specifically about packets, perhaps we should use bugs as the analogy of what sits on the leaves.
Now over the years as we stopped talking about the Internet and started talking about the cloud, the branches of the tree and the trunk of the tree started to get clusters. Perhaps we should think of these clusters as ant colonies. The point is the leaf structure became part of a larger support analogy. And end to end was no longer the architecture of record. Read More
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