[64577] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Tue Oct 28 12:18:27 2003
From: "Matthew Kaufman" <matthew@eeph.com>
To: "'Greg Maxwell'" <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
Cc: "'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:17:18 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0310281042110.25409-100000@da1server>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
End-to-end requires that people writing the software at the end learn about
buffer overruns (and other data-driven access violations) or program using
tools that prevent such things. It is otherwise an excellent idea.
Unfortunately, the day that someone decided their poorly-designed machine
and operating system would be safer sitting behind a "firewall" pretty much
marked the end of universal end-to-end connectivity, and I don't see it
coming back for a long long time. Probably not on this Internet. IPv6 or
not.
Combine that with ISP pricing models (helped by registry policy) that
encourage <=1 IP address per household, and the subsequent boom in NAT
boxes, and the fate is probably sealed.
Matthew Kaufman
matthew@eeph.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Greg Maxwell
>
> those who do not understand end-to-end are doomed to
> reimplement it, poorly.
>
