Design principles of the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture
* Article: Design principles of the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA). By Eduard Grasa, Eleni Trouva et al.
Introduction
"RINA design principles (or patterns) were first presented by John Day in his book ‘Patterns in Network Architecture: A return to Fundamentals”. This work is start afresh, taking into account lessons learned in the 35 years of TCP/IP’s existence, as well as the lessons of OSI’s failure and the lessons of other network technologies of the past few decades, such as CYCLADES, DECNET or XNS. He has made some key observations that point to a new direction. RINA departs from the basic premise that “networking is inter-process communication (IPC) and only IPC”. Networking provides the means by which processes on separate computer systems communicate, generalizing the model of local inter-process communications. In an operating system, to allow two processes to communicate, IPC requires certain functions such as locating processes, determining permission, passing information, scheduling, and managing memory. Similarly, two application processes residing on different systems communicate and share state information by utilizing the services of a Distributed IPC Facility."