  Exposed Buffer Architecture addresses the problem of creating a programmable
service platform for the digital continuum by reexamining the particular form
of virtualization that is inherent to the Internet architecture. In the
Internet stack below the Network Layer, the Link layer models services that are
local to network nodes, or that connect them in local area networks.
Aggregating these low level resources in the implementation of IP to create
wide area services serves two different purposes: 1) It virtualizes local
services, enabling interoperability through the adoption of a common model, and
2) It hides the topology of local infrastructure. The main premise of
ExposedBuffer Architecture is that we can separate these two tasks, addressing
the first with an invariant system model that provides a highly general,
programmable platform for transcontinuum services, enabling a variety of
approach to address the second.
