About the talk:
 

Many of the voices in the marketplace clamoring for the reinvention of the Internet are hardly sympathetic to the core values that have the made Internet a success and a cultural phenomenon. This talk assesses the limitations of today's Internet in light of the risks associated with repairs. In particular, the incremental fixes that have evolved to overcome serious flaws in the Internet architecture are contrasted with existing and proposed strategies to alter that architecture, with a mind to who might benefit from said alterations and what the impacts could be on transparency and neutrality. Internet Protocol addresses, and the allocation, depletion and conservation thereof, are explored as one detailed example. The true challenge to reinventing the Internet lies not in resolving its flaws - most of which have indeed been addressed in several proposed architectures - but in preventing that resolution from ceding the Internet to harmful interests.

 

About the speaker:
 

Jon Peterson is a Fellow at NeuStar, Inc., and has served for the past six years on the Steering Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), formerly as Transport Area Director and currently as Real-time Applications & Infrastructure (RAI) Area Director. Jon is an author or co-author of more than twenty Request for Comments (RFCs) relating to instantaneous personal communications (especially voice over IP and instant messaging) including RFC3261, the SIP specification. His particular interests are networking, security, and privacy. Jon formerly worked in the global architecture group of Level(3) Communications.