The need for network management has always been recognized. At the same time, it was recognized as both overhead to selling equipment as well as a facility to smooth over the shortcomings of the equipment. Most datacomm networks in the 1970s and before were fairly small, often using equipment from a single vendor. Network management…
IOHK is a technology company commited to using peer-to-peer innovations to deliver decentralized financial services. The company is leading the Cardano project, an ambitious effort to develop a 3rd generation cryptocurrency that can solve the scalability and interoperability needs of current cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. Cardano is a decentralized application that runs over the Internet and…
One goal of RINA is to distill a theory based on fundamental principles, on what the problem tells us. Largely, this has come down to finding the invariances. The RINA Reference Model describes that theory, as we now understand it. We have found that by not breaking the invariances we don’t encounter “devils in the…
Paul Budde, managing director of Paul Budde Communication, recently published a short article on why “We urgently need a new Internet“. In the article Mr. Budde cites an article of Martin Geddes on “why the old net is broken and we can’t fix it“, and mentions that there is growiing “support for looing at RINA for both the…
Pete Cladingbowl, interviewed by Martin Geddes, thinks that “The Internet needs a rebuild. We don’t need to throw it away, but rather need to overlay it with new structures. For instance, a basic structure is when we connect to it, we are forced to be connected to everything. Every device is out there ready to be…
Diego Lopez, in this post at the Telefonica “Think Big” blog (in spanish), explains that the current Internet has reached a size that has exceeded the expectations of its original designers by orders of magnitued. In order to reach this size many patches have been “organically” incorporated into the architecture, making it more complex, hard to manage and…
John Day, in this interview by Richard Bennett of High Tech Forum, lays out the elements of RINA at a high level, discussees the nature of the RINA transition, and assesses the state of three large-scale RINA trials in Europe. The conversation makes a strong emphasis on cibersecurity – one of the most stringent issues in the…
In a recent presentation at a standards event, someone cited a quote from Vint Cerf that they made a mistake binding IP to TCP with the pseudo-header. Supposedly not doing this would make it easier to solve some of the current problems facing the Internet, such as mobility. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. In fact,…