Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet: Looking past inessential complexities to explain the Internet's simple yet daring design.

The article focuses on the Internet's essential simplicity. The authors discuss the fundamental Internet design choices that have been in place since the 1980s, examines the rationale behind these design choices in an effort to understand the "why, not how" of the Internet, and offers insights for a...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 64 - 75
Main Authors: MCCAULEY, JAMES, SHENKER, SCOTT, VARGHESE, GEORGE
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2023
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          Assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College, Computer Science, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
          Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, EECS and a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
          Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Los Angeles, USA
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