Vint Cerf: SDN Is a Model For a Better Internet

Nerval's Lobster writes "Vint Cerf, one of the 'founders of the Internet,' told an audience April 16 that if he could do it all over again, he would construct the Internet in the mold of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocol suite with Bob Kahn, said that he admired how SDN separates the data plane from the control plane, which allows the network to be controlled via software from an external server. One of the hazards of conjoining the two, he added, was the attack risk. 'I wish we had done [the separation] in the Internet design, but we didn't,' Cerf told the audience for his keynote address at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. 'In a very interesting way you have an opportunity to reinvent this whole notion of networking.'"

Sure, because...

[fahrbot-bot]

...SDN separates the data plane from the control plane, which allows the network to be controlled via software from an external server.

...nothing could go wrong with allowing the network to be software controlled from a remote/external server - right?

silliness

[Anonymous Coward]

This is just silly. We all know Al Gore invented the internet so what does this Vent Cerf guy have to do with "doing it all over again"?

Re:The Economist article on SDN

[CanHasDIY]

Let me tell you something about IT: Never listen to the bean counters.

Caveat: Unless you marry one.

In which case, not only do you listen, you never, ever call them a bean counter to their face.

Had to learn that one the hard way myself...

Re:Sure, because...

[jon3k]

Thank god for the ultra secure model we have now, where we have to secure the control plane on every device individually.