On the suitability of composable services for the assurable future Internet

Our SILO architecture for the future Internet consists of composable fine-grain protocol elements called "services", and explicitly enables cross-layer interaction and optimization. While information assurance was not the only goal of SILO, we recognize that a critical need for the global network is a degree of assurability. In this paper, we present our view of the consequences of the SILO architecture with respect to information assurability. We also present some examples of information assurance services that could be easier enabled by SILO than the current architecture.