[73674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Parker)
Tue Aug 31 15:08:14 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erik Parker <eparker@mindsec.com>
To: Simon Waters <simon@wretched.demon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1093972385.1725.TMDA@email.demon.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> Surely the big benefits of peer to peer is it takes control way from the
> center - which will never go down well in Washington when the big
> Digital Publishers are being so successful at pushing through
> legislation via WIPO etc.
If they want to start back pedaling, perhaps we should switch to a star
physical topology instead of mesh.. put the center of the star dead center in
Washington where they can baby sit, run a petabit Carnivore system on it, and
let corporations with enough money have their weight put on how things are
run.
After all.. it is bad design typically to use a star topology for physical
networks.. because of one huge single point of failure.. P2P is the ultimate
mesh protocol to run on the global mesh network.
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