[46868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: references on non-central authority network protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Sat Apr 13 19:46:16 2002
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From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Patrick Thomas" <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:37:42 -0500
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Thus spake "Patrick Thomas" <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>
> I am looking for any and all research (and perhaps your
> comments), references, etc. regarding replacements for the
> TCP/IP protocol that do not require centralized authority
> structures (central authority to assign network numbers).
Please explain how you think any protocol could support non-trivial numbers
of users without some arbiter to prevent address collisions.
There are several alternatives to TCP being researched, but there are
currently no viable alternatives to IP.
S
