Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could
be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet?
The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic
design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet
look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up? In this
book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Internet
is actually put together, what requirements it was designed to
meet, and why different design decisions would create different
internets. He does not take today's Internet as a given but tries
to learn from it, and from alternative proposals for what an
internet might be, in order to draw some general conclusions about
network architecture. Clark discusses the history of the Internet,
and how a range of potentially conflicting requirements-including
longevity, security, availability, economic viability, management,
and meeting the needs of society-shaped its character. He addresses
both the technical aspects of the Internet and its broader social
and economic contexts. He describes basic design approaches and
explains, in terms accessible to nonspecialists, how networks are
designed to carry out their functions. (An appendix offers a more
technical discussion of network functions for readers who want the
details.) He considers a range of alternative proposals for how to
design an internet, examines in detail the key requirements a
successful design must meet, and then imagines how to design a
future internet from scratch. It's not that we should expect anyone
to do this; but, perhaps, by conceiving a better future, we can
push toward it.
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