FLORENTIN ROCHET

Extensibility is an essential requirement for the success of Internet protocols. Indeed, all standardized protocols have received extensions throughout the years to meet new use-cases and evolve with various desired properties. However, many of them have failed to be deployed despite the willingness of important actors and the availability of implementations. The main reasons for failures fall to middlebox interferences and to difficulties to propagate the usage of the new implementations. We aim for an original method to design extensible Internet protocols that won't be affected by middleboxes, and that would be fast to deploy everywhere. Many of these efforts have been realized under the initial impulsion of Olivier Bonaventure and his team.