Entry Date:
October 27, 2010

AIP: The Accountable Internet Protocol

Principal Investigator Hari Balakrishnan

Project Website http://www.aip-arch.net/


AIP (Accountable Internet Protocol) is a next-generation network architecture that provides accountability as a first-order property. AIP uses a hierarchy of self-certifying addresses, in which each component is derived from the public key of the corresponding entity. AIP enables simple solutions to source spoofing, denial-of-service, route hijacking, and route forgery. AIP's design meets a number of challenges of scaling, key management, and traffic engineering.