The Rise of the Stupid Network is an idea originally articulated by David Isenberg in 1997 position paper "while he was an employee of AT&T Labs Research." It asserts that the old telephone network engineered and optimized to intelligently route voice is being replaced by a stupid network in which "the data would tell the network where it needs to go."
"A new network 'philosophy and architecture,' is replacing the vision of an Intelligent Network. The vision is one in which the public communications network would be engineered for 'always-on' use, not intermittence and scarcity. It would be engineered for intelligence at the end-user's device, not in the network. And the network would be engineered simply to 'Deliver the Bits, Stupid,' not for fancy network routing or "smart" number translation. Fundamentally, it would be a Stupid Network. In the Stupid Network, the data would tell the network where it needs to go. (In contrast, in a circuit network, the network tells the data where to go.) In a Stupid Network, the data on it would be the boss." -- Rise of the Stupid Network, 1997.
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