Random Musings

Back in January, I read a blog post about Van Jacobson’s talk at Linux Conf.au 2006. (LWN’s coverage and the slides) This is some amazing stuff. I can’t really do these justice - go read. The slides show some amazing numbers in terms of potential speedups through rearchitecting.

What prompted this entry, however, has nothing to do with that. Instead, it has to do with another Van Jacobson talk at Google that deserves attention - namely A New Way to Look at Networking. Where the other paper and talk were about performance, this talk is more about thinking about what’s next - what will the ubiquitous network of 20 years from now look like, and how to make it work. (I’ll spoil a slide near the end, as a teaser - PGP meets BitTorrent and hitches a ride on an airplane. (Not Pacific Air 121, however.))