Subject: [87attendees] ISOC@IETF 87 Briefing Panel -- Improving Internet Experience: All together, now.

From: Kevin Craemer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:47:23 +0000

"Improving Internet Experience:  All together, now."

This is the title of the Internet Society briefing panel scheduled for IETF 87 in Berlin on Tuesday, 30 July, 11:45am to 12:45pm.  Below is more information on the topic and registration for those of you interested in attending.

As Internet use and user expectations grow, it is natural that network and service providers, as well as software developers, are all looking to provide the best experience possible for their users and customers.  However, performance issues (especially those related to transient congestion) tend to have collateral effects.  This is a case where local optimization strategies may, in fact, not lead to globally optimal network performance for a given activity.  In fact, server or client software developers' assumptions about network conditions may lead to disastrously wrong choices in managing network traffic if software elsewhere in the network is making different and countervailing assumptions and choices.
 
This panel will explore some of the different approaches being developed, between website, network transport and server developers, their assumptions about network performance and potential collision of strategies.  Panelists will also further elaborate existing work in measuring and developing (and deploying!) standards-based transport layer strategies for robustly improving overall performance.
 
Key questions:
As diversity of some key pieces of the stack, for example TCP algorithms, on the Internet grows, how does this impact reliability and the delivery of consistent performance outcomes for the end user application?
 
What are the pressures of working with constrained devices and the protocol adaptations and revisions that are being developed for the 'Internet of Things' teaching us about improving performance for the Internet in general?
 
Given the challenges of modeling or simulating the complexity of the Internet, how can we robustly develop and deploy new mechanisms to improve performance and improve end-user experience?
 
Moderator:
Leslie Daigle, Internet Society

Information on panelists is posted at:
https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-briefing-panel-ietf-87

Due to high demand for limited seating at Internet Society panel events, we are providing you with advance information on registration. Online registration will open in two time blocks to account for the broad range of home timezones of IETF participants.  Half of the available seats will open for registration at 09:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10 July. The other half will be made available at 21:00 UTC. Look for a registration form link at the webpage above at these times.

For those unable to attend, we plan to provide a live (and archived) audiocast, information on which will also be available at the above webpage.

Information and audio archives for past Internet Society panels can be found online at:
http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/internet-technology-matters/open-internet-standards/briefing-panels

Kevin Craemer
Senior Events Manager
Internet Society
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