The Clean Slate Program was an interdisciplinary

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which considered how the

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could be redesigned with a " clean slate", without the accumulated complexity of existing systems but using the experience gained in their decades of development. Its program director was

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Program outline

Clean Slate was based on the belief that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure, and that the Internet's shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and backward-compatible style of academic and industrial networking research. The research program focused on unconventional, bold, and long-term research that tries to break the network's

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. To this end, the program was characterized by two research questions: * "With what we know today, if we were to start again with a clean slate, how would we design a global communications infrastructure?" * "How should the Internet look in upcoming 15 years?" Program coordinators identified five key areas for research: #

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# Heterogeneous applications # Heterogeneous physical-layer technologies #

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and policy The Clean Slate Program ceased in January 2012, after spawning four major follow-up projects: # Internet Infrastructure:

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and

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# Mobile Internet: POMI 2020 # Mobile Social Networking: MobiSocial # Data Center: Stanford Experimental Data Center Lab

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External links

Stanford MobiSocial Computing Laboratory

POMI 2020: Programmable Open Mobile Internet

Stanford Experimental Data Center Lab

Internet architecture