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IAB Concerns and Recommendations Regarding Internet Research and Evolution

RFC 3869            Research Funding Recommendations         August 2004


             3.4.1.   Formal Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
             3.4.2.   Key Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
             3.4.3.   Cryptography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
             3.4.4.   Security for Distributed Computing. . . . . . . 15
             3.4.5.   Deployment Considerations in Security . . . . . 15
             3.4.6.   Denial of Service Protection. . . . . . . . . . 16
       3.5.  Network Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
             3.5.1.   Managing Networks, Not Devices. . . . . . . . . 16
             3.5.2.   Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities. . . . . . . . 17
             3.5.3.   Customer Network Management . . . . . . . . . . 17
             3.5.4.   Autonomous Network Management . . . . . . . . . 17
       3.6.  Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
             3.6.1.   Inter-Domain QoS Architecture . . . . . . . . . 18
             3.6.2.   New Queuing Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       3.7.  Congestion Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       3.8.  Studying the Evolution of the Internet Infrastructure. . 20
       3.9.  Middleboxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
       3.10. Internet Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
       3.11. Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       3.12. Meeting the Needs of the Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       3.13. Freely Distributable Prototypes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   4.  Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   5.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   6.  Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   7.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   8.  Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   9.  Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

1.  Introduction

   This document discusses the history of funding for Internet research,
   expresses concern about the current state of such funding, and
   outlines several specific areas that the IAB believes merit
   additional research.  Current funding levels for Internet research
   are not generally adequate, and several important research areas are
   significantly underfunded.  This situation needs to be rectified for
   the Internet to continue its evolution and development.

1.1.  Document Organization

   The first part of the document is a high-level discussion of the
   history of funding for Internet research to provide some historical
   context to this document.  The early funding of Internet research was
   largely from the U.S. government, followed by a period in the second
   half of the 1990s of commercial funding and of funding from several
   governments.  However, the commercial funding for Internet research
   has been reduced due to the recent economic downturn.




Atkinson & Floyd             Informational