Information and Communications Technology

Our current internet architecture was conceived for the 1980s. It's time for an upgrade

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enables the internet's over 70,000 different networks to talk to each other.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enables the internet's over 70,000 different networks to talk to each other. Image: Shutterstock

Giacomo Giuliari
PhD candidate, ETH Zurich
Joel Wanner
PhD candidate, ETH Zurich
Markus Legner
Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich
David Basin
Professor of Information Security, ETH Zurich
Peter Müller
Professor of Programming Methodology, ETH Zurich
Adrian Perrig
Professor of Network Security, ETH Zurich
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