Subject: [Sdn] SDN and Active Networks

From: Erik Nygren <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 17:51:13 -0500

Software-Defined Networking Research Group folks,

In a hallway conversation here at IETF, it was suggested that I send on a
pointer to the Active Networking research that was active from the
1996-1999 time-frame.
During time there was quite a bit of work at MIT, BBN, DARPA, and elsewhere
on "Active Networks" which are have significant similarities to
Software-Defined Networks.
For those unaware of this work, there may be value with skimming through it
for lessons that could be learned or carried forwards into today's SDN work.
Some sample references:

   http://djw.cs.washington.edu/papers/ieeecomms97.ps
   http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/activeware/
   http://www.sds.lcs.mit.edu/darpa-activenet/

(Some web searches will turn up more active networking work in the
1999-2000 time-frame.)

         Erik