paper review-JinJin

Name: Jin Jin
Student No: 995172940

Summary of the paper

This paper describes the design philosophy of the DARPA Internet
protocols. It explains why the Internet protocol is designed as it
is. Paper discusses this issue from several aspects, including
fundamental goal and several second level goals. The goals such as
interconnecting existing networks, importance of survivability, and
supporting variety of service and networks lead the Internet design
principle. The most important designs include datagram, separating
TCP and IP to two layers and etc. The idea is generally well
presented, and the research work itself is quite significant and
comprehensive.

Comments for the authors

The paper is generally well written, with fine and clear
presentation. What’s more attractive is the article structure is very
clear. Author uses Internet design goals to present the design of
protocol. This paper has made quite good contributions on the
illustration and analysis of Internet design.

Points in favour or against (also sent to the authors)

The paper proposed a lot of details in favor of why choosing a packet
switched communications facility, why datagram, why "best effort",
why not "cost effective". The presentation is very clear and
reasonable. However, for the presentation of "Other Goals", it seems
too weak. For a perfect research paper, every point should be
expressed with strong support and clearly.
Received on Wed Sep 13 2006 - 19:30:02 EDT