How to Clean a Slate

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This guest lecture will be held on the morning of the 23rd May. Guest speaker Professor John Day from Boston University, one of the original ARPANET scientists and rapporteur of the well-known "Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Reference Model group will discuss the fundamental flaws of the current Internet architecture and outline a new approach.

Professor Day will take personal look at Network Architecture from the early achievements of the ARPANET through major advances in the mid-1980s associated with IEEE and the subsequent regression into a dark age. While much progress was made in the 1980s, fundamental flaws in the network architectures of the time were an impediment to progress. Professor Day will cover the progress of Future Internet research leading into an introduction to the RINA; a new architecture (clean slate) for the internet of tomorrow.

Topics discussed will include Future Internet, Security, Naming & Addressing (Multi-Homing, Mobility).

Agenda

• 10:30: Event registration and tea/coffee
• 11:00: Introductions
  
• 11:15: TSSG Security Research Unit
  
• 11:30: John Day - How to Clean a Slate
  
• 12:30: Questions & Answers (John Day)
• 12:55: Closing remarks
  

The guest lecture will last approximately 2.5 hours, held in the Cork road campus of Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). An email will be distributed before the event to confirm which WIT Auditorium and directions within WIT.

SEATING IS LIMITED,  so REGISTER NOW  to secure your place!

Guest Speaker

Bio

John Day has been involved in research and innovation of computer science and networks since the 1970s when they were the 12th node on 'Net. Mr. Day has developed and designed protocols for everything from the data link layer to the application layer. Also making fundamental contributions to research on distributed databases. He also did work on the early development of supercomputers and was a member of a development team on three operating systems. Mr. Day was an early advocate of the use of Formal Description Techniques (FDTs) for protocols and shepherded the development of the three international standard FDTs: Estelle, LOTOS, and extending SDL. Mr. Day was rapporteur of the well-known Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Reference Model group and a major contributor to the upper-layer architecture; he also chaired the US ANSI committee for OSI Architecture and was a member of the Internet Research Task Force's Name Space Research Group.

He was a major contributor to the development of network management architecture, working in the area since 1984 and building and deploying a network management system, a decade ahead of comparable systems. Recently, Mr. Day has turned his attention to the fundamentals of network architectures and has published Patterns in Network Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2008), which has been characterized (embarrassingly) as "the most important book on network protocols in general and the Internet in particular ever written." Mr. Day is also a recognized scholar in the history of cartography, and has published on 17th Century China as well as contributing to exhibits at the Smithsonian.