[IP] Re: Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says

[David Farber <dfarber@cs.cmu.edu>]

BTW, we, at Udel did header compression most likely prior to Van (on
D.J. Farber, G. Delp, T.M. Conte, Thinwire protocol for connecting  
personal computers to the Internet, Internet historic RFC 0914,  
September 1984)

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From: "Edward Vielmetti" <edward.vielmetti@gmail.com>
Date: November 21, 2007 8:51:13 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says

for IP, if you like:

a pull quote from the actual study is

"we assumed that users had consumed, or would consume, a certain
amount of bandwidth, and that the rate of change of that bandwidth
consumption was the metric that mattered, rather than the specific
portfolio of applications"

those familiar with the history of the net know that when
bandwidth is scarce (as it has been at various times)
people innovate by throwing processor power and mass
storage at the problem.  Van Jacobsen implemented  header
compression for TCP because without it his Telebit Trailblazer
modem was too slow.  As Geoff Goodfellow noted in 1989:

"Without an economic basis, further development of short-term Internet
technology is has been skewed.  The most interesting innovations in
Internet engineering over the last five years have occurred in resource
poor, not resource rich, environments."

http://securitydigest.org/tcp-ip/archive/1989/08

Ed

On Nov 21, 2007 6:22 PM, David Farber <dfarber@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: November 21, 2007 10:37:44 AM EST
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Internet could clog networks by 2010, study  
> says
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> Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says
> Telephony Online
> By Sarah Reedy
>
> User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010,
> according to a study released today by Nemertes Research. The study
> found that corporate and consumer Internet usage could surpass the
> Internet access infrastructure, specifically in North America, but
> also worldwide, within the next three to five years.
>
> <http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/internet_network_capacity_111907/ 
> >
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