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SUMMARY:Pluginizing Internet Protocols - Olivier Bonaventure
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:Successful Internet protocols protocol have a common character
 istic:\nthey need to continuously evolve to address new use cases. Protoco
 l\ndesigners usually consider this extensibility problem from the viewpoin
 t\nof the protocol syntax. Most protocols use an extensible message format
 \nand include a negotiation scheme to select the extensions that are used\
 nfor a given conversation. Unfortunately\, this purely syntactical\napproa
 ch misses an important point: protocol implementations must evolve\nto sup
 port all these extensions.\n\nIn this talk\, we argue to a new approach to
  design and implement\nInternet protocols that ensures that their implemen
 tations will easily\nevolve. We envision that future implementations of a 
 given protocol will\nexpose a simple API that enables to extend it using p
 ortable bytecode\nthat we call plugins. To illustrate the feasibility of t
 his approach\, we\nsummarise our recent efforts in pluginzing three very d
 ifferent Internet\nprotocols (TCP\, BGP and QUIC) and lessons learned and 
 open research\nproblems. For additional information\, see\nhttps://plugini
 zed-protocols.org\n\nBio:\nOlivier Bonaventure [1] is professor at UCLouva
 in (Belgium) where he leads the IP Networking Lab [2]. Together with the P
 h.D. students and postdocs of the lab\, he has contributed to various netw
 orking protocols including BGP\, LISP\, Multipath TCP\, IPv6 Segment Routi
 ng\, and QUIC. He is active within the IETF and the lab has produced open-
 source implementations of important protocols including Multipath TCP\, IP
 v6 Segment Routing\, LISP\, and more. He was editor in chief of SIGCOMM CC
 R and is the main author of the award-winning and open-source Computer Net
 working: Principles\, Protocols and Practice e-book. He co-founded the Tes
 sares company that pioneers the deployment of Hybrid Access Networks using
  Multipath TCP. Researchers from the IP Networking Lab received various aw
 ards including an INFOCOM best paper award\, a SIGCOMM best paper award\, 
 an ICNP best paper award\, a USENIX NSDI community award\, several Applied
  Networking Research awards and the 2019 SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award 
 for the development of the open-source implementation of Multipath TCP.\n\
 n[1] https://perso.uclouvain.be/olivier.bonaventure\n\n[2] https://inl.inf
 o.ucl.ac.be\n\n\n
LOCATION:https://meet.google.com/ehj-dwaz-rea
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