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Invited Talk - Complexity and Deployment by Russ White, Akamai
SessionThe 11th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science - INDIS
DescriptionThe internet community has a long history of designing new protocols to solve current (and sometimes urgent) problems in network engineering. Not many of these protocols, however, end up widely deployed—and those that are widely deployed often end up being used in ways completely different than the original intent. Why? The thesis of this talk is the phenomenon of failed and mis-deployed protocols is directly related to complexity. Simple protocols succeed and complex protocols fail. This might seem obvious, but it leaves open a lot of questions. What is a “simple protocol?” Do successful protocols always remain “simple,” or do they accrue complexity over time? What is the impact of accrued complexity on network operations and protocol extensibility? This talk will attempt to create a framework, and suggest research directions, leading to answers for these questions.
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