Internet Architectural Principles

required reading:

RFCs

• Architectural Principles of the Internet - RFC 1958 - (1996) - Carpenter
• Internet Transparency RFC 2775 - (2000) - Carpenter
• Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and Philosophy RFC 3439 (2002) - Bush at al
• The Rise of the Middle and the Future of End to End: Reflections on the Evolution of the Internet Architecture - RFC 3724 (2004) Kempf & Austein

Other documents (read for content not memorization)

• Information Flow in Large Communications Nets - (1961) - Kleinrock - pp 1-11
• On Distributed Communications: Introduction to Distributed Communications Network - (1964) - Baran
• Tragedy of the Commons - (1968) - Hardin
• Hints for Computer System Design - (1983) - Lampson
• End to End Arguments in System Design - (1984) - Saltzer, Reed & Clark
• The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols - (1988) - Clark
• The Rise of the Stupid Network - (1997) - Isenberg
• The stupid network: Essential yet unattainable - (1999) - Odlyzko
• A Brief History of the Internet - (2000) - Leiner, et al (skim)
• A Real Options Metric to Evaluate Network, Protocol, and Service Architecture - (2004) - Gaynor & Bradner
• Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet - (2002) Clark et al.
• NewArch Final Technical Report - NewArch project - pp 4-25
• The Broadband Debate: A User's Guide - Wu (2004) - Introduction & Section I

optional reading:

Documents that may be of interest

• other papers by Paul Baran
• other papers by Andrew Odlyzko
• The ARPA Network Design Decisions - (1977) - McQuillan and Walden
• The DoD Internet Architecture Model - (1983) - Cerf & Cain
• The Catenet Model for Internetworking - (1978) - Cerf
• Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world - (2000) - Clark and Blumenthal
• On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic - (1993) - Leland, et al
• SIGCOM 25th Anniversary Issue reprints of many very important Internet research papers - (1995)
• SIGCOM in general - many fundamental papers over the history of the Internet
• Address Allocation for Private Internets RFC 1918 - (1996) - Rekhter, et al
• Verizon's peering policy
• How the 'Net works: an introduction to peering and transit (2008) ars technical
• NewArch Project: Future-Generation Internet Architecture - other documents
• ITU-T Next Generation Network web site

Books that may be of interest

• Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond - (1994) - Computer Science and Telecommunications Board