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Mark Handley
Professor of Networked Systems
University College London
A Global Network
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600
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500 4%
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The problem:
In almost every way, the Internet only just works!
The net only just works?
It’s always been this way:
1975-1981:
TCP/IP split as a reaction to the limitations of NCP.
1982:
DNS as a reaction to the net getting too large for hosts.txt files.
1980s:
EGP, RIP, OSPF as reactions to scaling problems with earlier routing
protocols.
1988:
TCP congestion control in response to congestion collapse.
1989:
BGP as a reaction to the need for policy routing in NSFnet.
Changing the net.
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Prior to the 1990s the Internet
was primarily academic and scientific.
Common goals.
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An Example:
Running out of addresses...
Telephone
Telephone
Network
Network
Data
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Global
Global
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TV
Network
Internet
Internet
Network
Mobile
Mobile
Telephone
Telephone
The Reality:
Internet Worms, Viruses, and Denial-of-Service Attacks
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5:30am GMT
24th Jan 2003
Normal daily Slammer Worm
traffic
The sky is falling!!!
No.
But we’re accumulating problems faster
than they’re being fixed.
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ARPAnet, 1974