Where did it come from?
Sense of wonder
- what would be the next important thing to do in extreme networked systems post cluster, post yahoo, post inktomi, post akamai, post gnutella, post bubble?
Sense of angst
- NRC: “looking over the fence at networks”
- ossified internet (intelluctually, infrastructure, system)
- next internet likely to emerge as overlay on current one (again)
- it will be defined by its services, not its transport
Sense of excitement
- new class of services & applns that spread over much of the web
- CDN’s, P2P’ss just the tip of the iceberg
- architectural concepts emerging
- scalable translation, dist. storage, dist. events, instrumentation, caching, management