Our Activities in ALPs
Believe in Application Level Programmable Nets
- Hipparch (EEC), Alpine (BT), Radioactive (DARPA)
Have Active Nodes as Proxy Servers
- Logically end-systems not network devices
- Packets directed to application level processes
- User-space programs modify content or mechanism
- Do not impact router, or need operator intervention (Do not impact control control kernel for other packets)