I came across a scheduled talk at Stanford Networking Research Center this week on “Cognitive Networks: Implementing Alternate Network Management & Routing with Software Programmable Intelligent Networks” by Shannon Lake, CEO of Omivergent. Unfortunately, I had another seminar to attend at exactly the same time (as usual), but I was curous about this talk and Mr. Lake’s assertions on “IP dogma”. So I went and asked him why do we need to “change our views on IP networks”, layer 3 versus layer 4, and the impact of jitter. He most kindly replied.