mogul@DECWRL.DEC.COM (Jeffrey Mogul) (07/01/88)
In conjunction with the "Lessons of the Internet" session at SIGCOMM '88, I am compiling a bibliography of published papers, books, etc. that have interesting things to say about the Internet and the Internet Protocols. For example, books such as Douglas Comer's "Internetworking with TCP/IP" and papers such as Lixia Zhang's on TCP Timers, or the upcoming paper by Van Jacobson, are the kind of thing I want. Also, anything that provides real data on how the Internet is used, such as the measured load on networks or gateways, is good. I'm only interested in formally published papers (journals or conference proceedings), technical reports, books, and other similar items. Informal publications, such as RFCs, IENs, and IDEAs, contain a lot of useful information, but they are already well-catalogued, there are an awful lot of them, and they aren't in most libraries. I'm also only looking for papers that say something interesting about the Internet. A paper that simply proposes a protocol is not particularly interesting; a paper that argues for a new or modified protocol based on experience with the Internet is interesting. In essence, I am looking for the literature of the Internet as an experiment, not the standards that define how it is supposed to work. Please mail your answers to me (do not send them to TCP-IP); I will make the results available (probably as an RFC or something like that). Thanks -Jeff