{"id":94866,"date":"2019-06-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/linuxs-broadening-foundation\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:30:00","slug":"linuxs-broadening-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/linuxs-broadening-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux’s Broadening Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to embrace 5G, starting with the Edge in our homes and hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nIn June 1997, David Isenberg<\/a>, then of
\nAT&T Labs Research, wrote a landmark
\npaper titled “Rise of the Stupid
\nNetwork”<\/a>. You can still find it here<\/a>. The
\npaper argued against phone companies’ intent to make their own systems
\nsmarter. He said the internet, which already was subsuming all the world’s
\nphone and cable TV company networks, was succeeding not by being smart, but
\nby being stupid. By that, he meant the internet “was built for intelligence at
\nthe end-user’s device, not in the network”.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a stupid network, he wrote, “the data is boss, bits are essentially free,
\nand there is no assumption that the data is of a single data rate or data
\ntype.” That approach worked because the internet’s base protocol, TCP\/IP, was
\nas general-purpose as can be. It supported every possible use by not caring
\nabout any particular use or purpose. That meant it didn’t care about data
\nrates or types, billing or other selfish concerns of the smaller specialized
\nnetworks it harnessed. Instead, the internet’s only concern was connecting end
\npoints for any of those end points’ purposes, over any intermediary networks,
\nincluding all those specialized ones, without prejudice. That lack of
\nprejudice is what we later called neutrality.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe academic term for the internet’s content- and purpose-neutral design is
\nend-to-end<\/em>. That design was informed by “End-to-End Arguments in System
\nDesign”<\/a>, a paper by Jerome Saltzer<\/a>, David P. Reed<\/a> and David D. Clark<\/a>,
\npublished in 1980. In 2003, David
\nWeinberger<\/a> and I later cited both papers in
\n“World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for
\nSomething Else”<\/a>. In it, we explained<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nWhen Craig Burton<\/a> describes<\/a> the Net’s stupid architecture as a hollow
\nsphere comprised entirely of ends, he’s painting a picture that gets at
\nwhat’s most remarkable about the Internet’s architecture: Take the value out
\nof the center and you enable an insane flowering of value among the connected
\nend points. Because, of course, when every end is connected, each to each and
\neach to all, the ends aren’t endpoints at all.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd what do we ends do? Anything that can be done by anyone who wants to
\nmove bits around.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to embrace 5G, starting with the Edge in our homes and hands. In June 1997, David Isenberg, then of AT&T Labs Research, wrote a landmark paper titled “Rise of the Stupid Network”. You can still find it here. The paper argued against phone companies’ intent to make their own systems smarter. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}