Wetware-Defined Networks

In the bright future, networks will be defined by software. Until then, we'll still need brains ("wetware") to design, build and run them.

Pointers

End-to-end Arguments in System Design

Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, and David D. Clark, April 1981

The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols

David D. Clark, August 1988, in: ACM SIGCOMM CCR

Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet

J. Mccauley, S. Shenker, G. Varghese, February 2022, in: Communications of the ACM, Vol. 66 No. 2, Pages 64-74. (video)