Reading Review for Class 3
This class’s readings are (pick 1):
Your review should include a summary of the paper you read, which
discusses
- the problem the paper addresses
- the paper’s solution
- the evidence the paper provides that the solution was
correct. Remember to keep in mind the historical context the
papers discuss.
Your review should also discuss, after the summary:
- whether the problem the paper solved is an important
one
- whether the solution was a good one
- whether the paper was fun or enjoyable to read.
- what questions you have about the paper, or which parts of the paper
(if any) you found hard to understand.
You should answer the above questions in about one sentence each. The
remainder of your review (about the below questions) should be about a
page (~500 words) long.
Finally, for this week’s papers, please reflect on the following
questions (really one question - the ones after the first one are just
different phrasings and aspects of the same question):
- Whether you read B4 or SWAN, how is the network you read about
similar to the Internet as described in Clark ’88? How is it
different?
- What factors and incentives do you think led Google (or
respectively, Microsoft) to design B4 (or SWAN) in the way they
did?
- How were the design constraints the same or different?
- What effect might the deployment of B4 or SWAN have had on the
larger Internet?
Also:
- Use the LLM tool of your choice to summarize both the paper you
read, and the one you didn’t read.
- Comment on the accuracy of the summary for the paper you read.