Clean Slate Program
The Clean Slate Program was an interdisciplinary research program at Stanford University which considered how the Internet could be redesigned with a "clean slate", without the accumulated complexity of existing systems but using the experience gained in their decades of development.[1] Its program director was Nick McKeown.[2][3]
Program outline
Clean Slate was based on the belief that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure, and that the Internet's shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and backward-compatible style of academic and industrial networking research.[4]
The research program focused on unconventional, bold, and long-term research that tries to break the network's ossification. To this end, the program was characterized by two research questions:[citation needed]
- "With what we know today, if we were to start again with a clean slate, how would we design a global communications infrastructure?"[citation needed]
- "How should the Internet look in upcoming 15 years?"[2]
Program coordinators identified five key areas for research:[4]
- Network architecture
- Heterogeneous applications
- Heterogeneous physical-layer technologies
- Security
- Economics and policy
The Clean Slate Program ceased in January 2012, after spawning four major follow-up projects:[1][5]
- Internet Infrastructure: OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking
- Mobile Internet: POMI 2020
- Mobile Social Networking: MobiSocial
- Data Center: Stanford Experimental Data Center Lab
References
- ^ a b "Clean Slate". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ a b Orenstein, David (March 14, 2007). "A broad-based team of Stanford researchers aims to overhaul the Internet". Stanford News. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ "Clean Slate People". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ a b "About Clean Slate". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
- ^ "Clean Slate Research Projects". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-10-30.