From: Yuhan Cai (yuhancai@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 23:27:00 PST
Title: Internet Indirection Infrastructure
Authors: Ion Stoica, Daniel Adkins, Shelley Zhuang, Scott Shenker, and Sonesh Surana
Reviewed by: Yuhan Cai
Main results of the paper:
， It presents an infrastructure for the Internet that provides a rendezvous-based communication abstraction.
， A prototype based on the Chord lookup protocol is built to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.
Strengths of the paper:
， As a general-purpose infrastructure, it allows an efficient support for a variety of communication services.
， The abstraction is flexible and rendezvous-based so that communication services other than uni-cast (such as multicast, anycast and mobility) can be easily built on top of it.
， An overlay network has been built to demonstrate that the system can support relatively sophisticated applications.
Key limitations:
， Security and efficiency issues should have been addressed.
Relevance of the paper:
， It provides a generic system that avoids the inherent technical and deployment challenges, and the redundancy and lack of synergy in more traditional application-layer approaches.
Future work:
， Further experience with using and deploying new applications on top of the system is required.
， It might be worthwhile to explore the trade-offs involved by using different lookup protocols to implement.
， Better methods might exist for inexact matching.
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