Welcome to BigHook2006!

[this page is under construction]

This year's theme, "If we could build it from scratch . . . " begs what would we build this time?" It is not an entirely heuristic exercise; in all previous history communications networks have been built for a specific application, yet within our lifetimes we've built an entirely new kind of any-app network.

Maybe we could do it again. What would it take? (Let's discuss.)

And what would we build? To answer that, we need to know both (a) what we value about the Internet and (b) what we believe could be done better. Both of these will be discussion starters at BigHook2006

David Clark, one of the original proponents of the end-to-end principle has kicked off a more radical rethinking [Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet.pdf, Future Generation Internet Architecture.pdf, Wired article on Clark's idea]. In this context, IPv6 was a minor, incremental rework.

[more soon]

Agenda:

Wednesday, September 6
Noon to 1:30 PM: Check in, lunch, meet fellow participants, swimming.
1:30 to 3:30 PM, Session 1a: Introductions (new people first)
3:30 to 4:00 PM: break
4:00 to 5:30 PM, Session 1b: More intros, until done,
Discussion of theme, "If we built it from scratch."
5:30 to 8:00 PM: Dinner, fishing, music
8:00 to 9:00 PM, Session 2: TBD
**new** 9:00 PM to whenever -- 5 minute talks about anything,
for as long as the talks last and people stay up to listen.
Signups open at 5:30 PM Wednesday.

Thursday - September 7
7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast, fishing.
8:30 to 10:00 AM, Session 3a: What we'd keep, what we'd change
10:00 to 10:30 AM: break
10:30 AM to Noon, Session 3b: Economic sustainability in Layers 0-3
Noon to 2:00 PM: Lunch, swimming, music.
2:00 to 3:30 PM, Session 4a: If we could legislate it from scratch
3:30 to 4:00 PM: break
4:00 to 5:30, Session 4b: We're already building it from scratch!
5:30 to 8:00 PM: Dinner, fishing, music.
8:00 to 8:30 PM: Special Musical Event
8:30 to 9:30 PM, Session 5: "If I were Chairman of the FCC"
**new** 9:30 to whenever -- BOF sessions

Friday - September 8
7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast, fishing.
8:30 to 10:00 AM, Session 6a: Building for tomorrow's apps
10:00 to 10:30 AM: break
10:30 AM to Noon, Session 6b: You can't get they-ah from hey-ah
Noon to 2:00 PM: Lunch, swimming, music

2006 Participants

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