Smarter core for the Internet

Since "the Internet is far too large to sustain the concept of a flag day for deployment of any technology", according to Geoff Huston, we need to be really smart at designing new technologies if the deployment is part of the goal (of course it is :D).

Therefore, instead of frying your brain and looking for a ``best'' solution for gradual deployment, I'd like to see a smarter Internet that can incorporate both new and old technologies. One way to achieve this goal is to design or improve a smarter core of the Internet.

You may wonder, the Internet is supposed to be a flat design from the ISP level (or other coarser granularities), but that does not stop us from designing something like a next-gen Internet Exchange Point that applies the most tolerant and intelligent algorithms on it. The of the this kind of IXP is:

• allow different versions of the routing protocol to run in the same environment without requiring ubiquitous deployment.
• enable monitoring systems to play and get the most of it to protect the current Internet. For example, a Buddyguard system that is deployed in an IXP can absorb the most accurate and up-to-date information to learn the best ``normalities'' from the BGP updates. So does I-seismograph. In other words, a playground for different monitoring systems could be a big beneficial point for both the maintenance of the Internet, and the progression of the future protocols.
• a smarter IXP could also be used as an super learning source for the future of the artificial intelligence. However, this is only my own ambitious vision, which may not have any academical goods.