The design philosophy of the DARPA internet protocols
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Public access to the Internet
Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
On the benefits and feasibility of incentive based routing infrastructure
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Practice and theory of incentives in networked systems
Towards an evolvable internet architecture
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A BGP-based mechanism for lowest-cost routing
Distributed Computing - Special issue: PODC 02
Strong accountability for network storage
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
PeerReview: practical accountability for distributed systems
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Uncovering performance differences among backbone ISPs with Netdiff
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
User-directed routing: from theory, towards practice
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Economics of networked systems
Protocols and lower bounds for failure localization in the internet
EUROCRYPT'08 Proceedings of the theory and applications of cryptographic techniques 27th annual international conference on Advances in cryptology
Efficient querying and maintenance of network provenance at internet-scale
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Innovations and upgrades in virtualized network architectures
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation
Verifiable network-performance measurements
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Incentivizing responsible networking via introduction-based routing
TRUST'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Trust and trustworthy computing
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Quality of Service
Declarative secure distributed information systems
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
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Today's Internet industry suffers from several well-known pathologies, but none is as destructive in the long term as its resistance to evolution. Rather than introducing new services, ISPs are presently moving towards greater commoditization. It is apparent that the network's primitive system of contracts does not align incentives properly. In this study, we identify the network's lack of accountability as a fundamental obstacle to correcting this problem: Employing an economic model, we argue that optimal routes and innovation are impossible unless new monitoring capability is introduced and incorporated with the contracting system. Furthermore, we derive the minimum requirements a monitoring system must meet to support first-best routing and innovation characteristics. Our work does not constitute a new protocol; rather, we provide practical and specific guidance for the design of monitoring systems, as well as a theoretical framework to explore the factors that influence innovation.