Google’s January 2010 news of apparent attacks from China on its Gmail service 2 was a comparatively public alert to the need to rebalance popular thinking about the merits of cloud computing. Touted by its advocates as the next big thing in computing, if not the next incarnation of the...

"The cloud" can apply to different kinds of services (typically differentiated as platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service), and it is the subject of rampant hype about its benefits. This paper draws on extensive readings from the literature (technical,...

The end-to-end argument was first put forward in the early 1980s as a core design principle of the Internet. The argument, as framed then, remains relevant and powerful: the fundamental architecture of the Internet endures, despite change in both underlying technologies and in applications....