<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Korian Edeline</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benoit Donnet</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Towards a Middlebox Policy Taxonomy: Path Impairments</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom)</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">classification</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IPv6</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">middleboxes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">path impairment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tracebox</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">04/2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Recent years have seen the rise of middleboxes, such as firewalls, NATs, proxies,&amp;nbsp;or Deep Packet Inspectors. Those middleboxes play an important role in today's&amp;nbsp;Internet, including enterprise networks and cellular networks. However, despite&amp;nbsp;their huge success in modern network architecture, they have a negative impact&amp;nbsp;on the Internet evolution as they can slow down the TCP protocol evolution and its&amp;nbsp;extensions. Making available a summary of the potential middlebox network&amp;nbsp;interferences is of the highest importance as it could allow researchers to&amp;nbsp;confront their new transport protocol to potential issues caused by middleboxes.&amp;nbsp;And, consequently, allowing again innovation in the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what we tackle in this paper. We propose a path impairment&amp;nbsp;oriented middlebox taxonomy that aims at categorizing the initial purpose of a&amp;nbsp;middlebox policy as well as its potential unexpected complications. Based on a&amp;nbsp;measurement campaign on IPv4 and IPv6 networks, we confront our taxonomy to the&amp;nbsp;real world. Our dataset is freely available.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>