Report from the IAB Workshop on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT)
RFC 7305
Internet Architecture Board (IAB) E. Lear, Ed.
Request for Comments: 7305 July 2014
Category: Informational
ISSN: 2070-1721
Report from the IAB Workshop
on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT)
Abstract
This document provides an overview of a workshop held by the Internet
Architecture Board (IAB) on Internet Technology Adoption and
Transition (ITAT). The workshop was hosted by the University of
Cambridge on December 4th and 5th of 2013 in Cambridge, UK. The goal
of the workshop was to facilitate adoption of Internet protocols,
through examination of a variety of economic models, with particular
emphasis at the waist of the hourglass (e.g., the middle of the
protocol stack). This report summarizes contributions and
discussions. As the topics were wide ranging, there is no single set
of recommendations for IETF participants to pursue at this time.
Instead, in the classic sense of early research, the workshop noted
areas that deserve further exploration.
Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the
workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are
those of the workshop participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB
views and positions.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
and represents information that the IAB has deemed valuable to
provide for permanent record. It represents the consensus of the
Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Documents approved for
publication by the IAB are not a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7305.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Organization of This Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Motivations and Review of Existing Work . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Economics of Protocol Adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. When can bundling help adoption of network
technologies or services? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Internet Protocol Adoption: Learning from Bitcoin . . . . 7
3.3. Long term strategy for a successful deployment of
DNSSEC - on all levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4. Framework for analyzing feasibility of Internet
protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5. Best Effort Service as a Deployment Success Factor . . . 9
4. Innovative / Out-There Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1. On the Complexity of Designed Systems (and its effect
on protocol deployment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2. Managing Diversity to Manage Technological
Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. On Economic Models of Network Technology Adoption,
Design, and Viability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5. Making Standards Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1. Standards: a love/hate relationship with patents . . . . 11
5.2. Bridge Networking Research and Internet
Standardization: Case Study on Mobile Traffic
Offloading and IPv6 Transition Technologies . . . . . . . 11
5.3. An Internet Architecture for the Challenged . . . . . . . 12
6. Other Challenges and Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.1. Resilience of the commons: routing security . . . . . . . 12
6.2. Getting to the Next Version of TLS . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.1. Work for the IAB and the IETF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.2. Potential for the Internet Research Task Force . . . . . 14
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