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On the Study of Internet Ossification, Impacts, and Solutions

Authors:
Lin Han
Richard Li

Keywords: Future Internet; Ossification; Decentralization; Distributed; Fragmentation.

Abstract:
The current Internet is based on IPv4 and IPv6. It has been in service for many years and is very successful. However, it is facing challenges in protocol ossification, security, and service quality. Recently, the geographical tension, trading confrontation, digital asset and digital sovereignty, the regulation for data protection and localization have raised decentralization requirements for the Internet. This paper analyses the factors for the Internet ossification and its impacts, it proposes a new architecture that is distributed based on region or country. It can maintain the support of the current IPv4/IPv6 and existing applications, and provide more flexibility for the protocol, thus mitigating the ossification of the Internet. With the new architecture, the Internet will be decentralized based on regional governance and provide more space for more diversities within different regions. Meanwhile, the global connectivity, accessibility and integrity of the Internet are kept.

Pages: 53 to 62

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2023. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2023

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ISSN: 1942-2644