David P. Reed has a very impressive CV.<p>Designer of UDP/IP, per above thesis also inventor of MVCC, and a co author of the (imho) important "End-to-end arguments in system design" whitepaper, etc ...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed</a><p>[edit: alt url for OP: <a href="https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/05331643-MIT.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/0533164...</a>]
This won't download for me but I was able to get it quickly here: <a href="https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16279#files-area" rel="nofollow">https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16279#files-area</a>
Dave Reed (author of the linked paper) also gave a fantastic presentation on the End-to-End Arguments a few years ago: <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity10/end-end-arguments-internet-and-beyond" rel="nofollow">https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity10/end-end-a...</a>.