[73677] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Hilton)
Tue Aug 31 16:33:22 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:28:30 -0700
From: "Dave Hilton" <hilton@entelos.com>
To: "Erik Parker" <eparker@mindsec.com>,
"Simon Waters" <simon@wretched.demon.co.uk>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
To those of "authority", single-point-of-failure equates to "centralized
control". With the word control in large neon capital letters.
Dave Hilton=20
Staff System Administrator=20
entelos(r)=20
Foster City, CA=20
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"Notice: I tend to become apprehensive when my position in the food
chain becomes ambiguous."=20
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Erik Parker
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:07 PM
To: Simon Waters
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of
P2P
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> Surely the big benefits of peer to peer is it takes control way from=20
> the center - which will never go down well in Washington when the big=20
> Digital Publishers are being so successful at pushing through=20
> legislation via WIPO etc.
If they want to start back pedaling, perhaps we should switch to a star=20
physical topology instead of mesh.. put the center of the star dead
center in=20
Washington where they can baby sit, run a petabit Carnivore system on
it, and=20
let corporations with enough money have their weight put on how things
are=20
run.
After all.. it is bad design typically to use a star topology for
physical=20
networks.. because of one huge single point of failure.. P2P is the
ultimate=20
mesh protocol to run on the global mesh network.
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