Cyber-Physical convergence, the fast expansion of the Internet at its edge,
and tighter interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices
push towards an Internet where the human user becomes more central than ever,
and where their personal devices become their proxies in the cyber world, in
addition to acting as a fundamental tool to sense the physical world. The
current Internet paradigm, which is infrastructure-centric, is not the right
one to cope with such emerging scenario with a wider range of applications.
This calls for a radically new Internet paradigm, that we name the Internet of
People (IoP), where the humans and their personal devices are not seen merely
as end users of applications, but become active elements of the Internet. Note
that IoP is not a replacement of the current Internet infrastructure, but it
exploits legacy Internet services as (reliable) primitives to achieve
end-to-end connectivity on a global-scale. In this visionary paper, we first
discuss the key features of the IoP paradigm along with the underlying research
issues and challenges. Then we present emerging networking and computing
paradigms that are anticipating IoP

本文提出了 “人性化网络”(IoP) 概念，该网络以用户和他们的移动设备为中心，整合网络世界和物理世界。IoP 并非基础设施的替代，而是利用现有（可靠的）基础设施，实现全球范围内的端到端连接。文章讨论了 IoP 范式的关键特征及其潜在科研问题和挑战，并介绍了一些方法来支持 IoP 。