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Subject: [IP] Areas of future Internet research and evolution

From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: Ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:04:06 -0400



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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: August 26, 2004 6:46:06 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Areas of future Internet research and evolution
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[Note:  I'm cross posting this item from the CANARIE list.  DLH]

From: CAnet-NEWS@canarie.ca
Date: August 25, 2004 7:09:42 AM PDT
Subject: [news] Areas of future Internet research and evolution

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[Here is an excellent document that discusses what ongoing research is

needed to further the evolution of the Internet infrastructure, andthat

consistent, sufficient non-commercial funding is needed to enable such
research -- BSA]


        Title:      IAB Concerns and Recommendations
                    Regarding Internet Research and Evolution
        Author(s):  R. Atkinson, Ed., S. Floyd, Ed., IAB
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       August 2004
        Mailbox:    iab@iab.org
        Pages:      30
        Characters: 78250
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-iab-research-funding-03.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3869.txt



This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board.

This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does not
specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.



..... a key issue in funding for Internet research,
   which is that because no single organization (e.g., no single
   government, software company, equipment vendor, or network operator)
   has a sense of ownership of the global Internet infrastructure,
   research on the general issues of the Internet infrastructure are
   often not adequately funded.  In our current challenging economic
   climate, it is not surprising that commercial funding sources are
   more likely to fund that research that leads to a direct competitive
   advantage.

   The principal thesis of this document is that if commercial funding
   is the main source of funding for future Internet research, the
   future of the Internet infrastructure could be in trouble.  In
   addition to issues about which projects are funded, the funding
   source can also affect the content of the research, for example,
   towards or against the development of open standards, or taking
   varying degrees of care about the effect of the developed protocols
   on the other traffic on the Internet.

   At the same time, many significant research contributions in
   networking have come from commercial funding.  However, for most of
   the topics in this document, relying solely on commercially-funded
   research would not be adequate.  Much of today's commercial funding
   is focused on technology transition, taking results from non-
   commercial research and putting them into shipping commercial
   products.  We have not tried to delve into each of the research
   issues below to discuss, for each issue, what are the potentials and
   limitations of commercial funding for research in that area.

   On a more practical note, if there was no commercial funding for
   Internet research, then few research projects would be taken to
   completion with implementations, deployment, and follow-up
   evaluation.



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