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Re: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET moved to Beijing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Osterweil)
Wed Oct 5 16:10:49 2011
From: Eric Osterweil <eosterweil@verisign.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHyNd16mr3Y=NvuvdQr25=qN6t9hPFKN2ZGxxg7EWrn0-scv+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:08:02 -0400
To: Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:
> Leo,
>=20
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
>>=20
<snip>
>=20
> This sounds an awfully lot like the notary concept:
> - http://perspectives-project.org/
> - http://convergence.io/
>=20
> Furthermore, changing network paths used to reach information probably
> should not be reason to shut down a service, in general. More
> interesting than which path is used, I suppose, is whether or not the
> data being returned has been changed in some unexpected/undesired way.
Actually, some other related work that's been around for 3-6 years =
includes:
- http://vantage-points.org/
- http://secspider.cs.ucla.edu/
The former has a tech report (listed on its page, =
http://techreports.verisignlabs.com/tr-lookup.cgi?trid=3D1110001 ) that =
presents candidate closed form analysis of how much faith you can gain =
using network path diversity.
Eric=
