Annotated list of papers and published standards documents on which I was in the authors list.
Levels of Aggregation in Flow Switched Networks
An early paper, 1997, on the levels of traffic aggregation that are useful in networks. This paper focused on the notion of flows and how those flows could be aggregated from the edge of the network towards it core and then back to the edge. It discussed a method of incrementing and decrementing the level of aggregation of traffic flows as one moved through the network.
Wavelength Router as a Transport Platform for IP
Paper describing how a IP network could be overlaid on a network of optical switches. Pretty obvious stuff by now, but it was still a new idea then.
Movement from Monoliths to Component-Based Networ Elements
This paper describes a movement toward a change in the way telecommunication equipment as designed and deployed. It argues for a physical architecture that has systems layered across the different planes. While this is beginning to be accepted by many of the service providers, it is a trend that is still not accepted by many equipment vendors.
Inter-domain Routing Stability Measurement
There are a number of studies done on problems seen in the stability of the internet routing structure. Prior inter-domain routing measurements include passive analysis of routing table growth and error injection for convergence measurement. The measurements in this paper are solely based on passive logging of BGP-4 traffic from measurement points including major European IPS backbone networks and some academic networks. The goal is to understand the failures in Internet reachability and excessive route flapping through study of macro effects in the control plane.
General Switch Management Protocol(GSMP) V3 (RFC 3292)
GSMP Packet Encapsulations for ATM, Ethernet and TCP (RFC 3293)
General Switch Management Protocol Applicability (RFC 3294)
This set of documents describes the General Switch Management Protocol Version 3 (GSMPv3). The GSMPv3 is an asymmetric protocol that allows one or more external switch controllers to establish and maintain the state of a label switch such as, an ATM, frame relay or MPLS switch.
The GSMPv3 allows control of both unicast and multicast switch connection state as well as control of switch system resources and QoS features. It is a component for opening the interface between the control plane and data plane in a decomposed network system architecture.
Providing connectivity to the Sámi nomadic community
This paper describes the Sámi Network Connectivity project, a project that seeks to establish Internet communication for the Sámi population of reindeer herders who live in remote regions of Swedish Sapmi (Lapland). The paper covers both the social context for the project and includes an introduction to the technical solution which is based on ideas developed in delay Tolerant Networking.
Probabilistic Routing in Intermittently Connected Networks
This paper considers the problem of routing in intermittently connected networks. In such networks there is no guarantee that a fully connected graph between source and destination exists at any time rendering traditional routing protocols unable to deliver messages between hosts. There do however, exist a number of scenarios where connectivity is intermittent, but where the possibility of communication still is desirable. Thus, there is a need for a way to route through such networks. This paper proposes PROPHET, a probabilistic routing protocol for such networks and compares it to the earlier Epidemic Routing protocols through simulations.
SNC - When the red nose won't do! A nomadic proposition for connectivity
In June 2002 a project was proposed to provide connectivity to the semi-nomadic Sámi reindeer herds of Northern Sweden. This paper includes the context involved in setting up this project and discusses many of the issues that have arisen in the first year of the project.
Sámi Network Connectivity – High Tech and Local Participation in Northern Scandinavia
An overview of the SNC project and its position within the local community
Requirements for Inter-Domain Routing
These requirements for routing architectures are the product of two sub-groups with the IRTF Routing Research Group. They represent two individual and separate views of the problem and of what is required to fix the problem. While speaking of requirements, the document is actually a recommendation to anyone who would create a routing architecture for the Internet in the coming years.
Analysis of Inter Domain Routing (IDR) Requirements and History
This document analyzes the current state of IDR routing with respect to RFC1026 and other IDR requirements and design efforts. It is the companion document to "Requirements for Inter-Domain Routing"
WSIS, WGIG, Technology and Technologists
This is a chapter from a book put out by members of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. It discusses the involvement of technologists in the World Summit on Information Society and the Working Group on Internet Governance.
Internet Governance and Human Rights
This paper looks at the role of Human Rights in the WSIS and Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) process. It also looks at civil societies role in the process. In this analysis, not only are the words from the texts of the WSIS outcome discussed, but some of the activities involved in the second phase of WSIS leading up to and including the Tunis summit are also discussed. The analysis shows, that while there was a modicum of lip service paid to human rights, in fact human rights were transgressed more then they were upheld and that these transgression were treated with acquiescence by those responsible for the WSIS.
The IETF as a model for the IGF
One of the models that was suggested for the IGF during the Tunis phase of WSIS, and several times since-Tunis is the Internet Engineering Task Force, better known simply as the IETF. This note attempts to briefly outline one IETF participant's impression of what the IETF model is.
Talk on Internet Governance given to Sámi Network Gender Allocation Project
Introduction to Internet Governance and a view as to why feminist groups should participate.
Rethinking the Role of ICANN and the gTLD whois to Enhance the Security and Stability of the DNS
A radical proposal reviewing the purpose of whois and the need for replacing whois with appropriate tools that satisfy the real needs of the Internet community.
GPSDTN: Predictive Velocity-Enabled Delay-Tolerant Networks for Arctic Research and Sustainability
This paper contains a requirements analysis and general implementation strategy to support Arctic research and sustainability efforts. The paper proposes to augment DTN with power-aware, buffer-aware location- and time-based predictive routing for ad-hoc meshes to create networks that are inherently location and time (velocity) aware at the network level to support climate research, emergency services and rural education in the Arctic. [accepted for publication and presentation at IEEE ICGD&BC'07 and Workshops]
This paper proposes a paradigm upon which all the governments of the world have equal access to these core Internet resources to empower them and their citizens with the rights acknowledged in the WSIS Declaration of Principles.
What do the Words “Internet Security” Mean? (page 197)
Internet security is frequently discussed, but if you ask people what they mean by it, you may get many different and sometimes contradictory answers. Security has become an overloaded term used by many in various differing ways. This paper explores some of those definitions.