SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Why the Internet only just works
BT Technology Journal
Middleboxes no longer considered harmful
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
The terminal IMP for the ARPA computer network
AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
Issues in packet switching network design
AFIPS '75 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition
The internet is not a big truck: toward quantifying network neutrality
PAM'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
IEEE Spectrum
Do appliances threaten Internet innovation?
IEEE Communications Magazine
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The Internet has been a loose federation of networks allowing a variety of local discriminations to persist, in order to set off the conceptual problems of moving vital networking functions into the end hosts. And yet, those discriminations have been largely without a loss of generality at the narrow common ground of the IP layer. Discriminations have been ranging from simple access restrictions, to legal usage restrictions, to more or less elaborate application and location discrimination. Today's "equilibrium of discrimination" is tilted towards the latter category, and this has prompted concerns about potentially adverse effects on second-order properties of the internet --- most notably "innovation". We argue with reference to von Hayek (Rules and Order, volume 1 of: Law, Legislation and Liberty, 1973) that a narrow conception of innovation has been well compatible with the market and technical non-neutral realities of the internet. Rather that fighting or prohibiting discrimination patterns, we should focus on furthering fairness and efficiency of the Internet --- and thus its "rules of just conduct".