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(Draft for internal comment -- please do not distribute beyond BigHook2005 attendees)
The Network We Want for Our GrandchildrenWe want a universally connectable public communications network with an absolute minimum of assumptions about a) what is connected to what at the edges, b) the contents of the data being carried or the applications that generated this content, c) the physical layer over which carriage occurs, and d) other networks that connect to it. The assumptions that it embodies should be explicit and well-specified. We want a public communications network that is maximally open and maximally capacious with the highest speed, throughput, consistency and reliability and the lowest latency, jitter and failure rate, that connects every device to every other device on every network that holds connectivity services out for public hire and every consenting private network. We want a public network that is low cost, that will provide the fastest and most capacious connections for the lowest cost, a network that will improve as technology affords, a network that is maximally maintainable at minimum cost, a network that can extend to connect all regions and peoples ubiquitously and affordably. We also want a network with a sustainable operating model, a network that will sustain network building, network operating and network maintenance by some realizable set of builders, owners and maintainers. We want a network that will benefit humanity, that will support communications among individuals and groups, that will allow different peoples to know each other, that will allow enterprises to better reach customers, suppliers and ideas, and that will support the discovery, distribution and use of new communications applications, new ways to communicate and new ways to interact in commerce and citizenship. |
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