Enabling a Permanent Revolution in Internet Architecture

The research community has developed a number of interesting proposals for new Internet architectures (e.g., NDN and XIA), which sometimes leads to asking the high stakes question of which one of these new proposals should succeed the current Internet architecture. This project, presented at SIGCOMM 2019 as “Enabling a Permanent Revolution in Internet Architecture”, explored a vision for the future wherein multiple Internet architectures can be deployed on and coexist on the same existing infrastructure. The proposed design radically reduces the requirements for deploying a new architecture (i.e., it doesn’t require replacing every router in the world), and removes the requirement that a single architectural design must meet everyone’s needs.