[81867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lixia Zhang)
Fri Jul 1 11:56:26 2005
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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:56:00 -0700
To: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
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On Jul 1, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Simon Waters wrote:
> On Friday 01 Jul 2005 11:28 am, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>
>>
>> I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that we could benefit from
>> some
>> fundamental changes to Internet architecture.
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html?
>> tw=wn_6techhea
>> d
>>
>> Dave Clark is proposing that the NSF should fund a new demonstration
>> network that implements a fundamentally new architecture at many
>> levels.
>>
>
> '"Look at phishing and spam, and zombies, and all this crap," said
> Clark.
> "Show me how six incremental changes are going to make them go away."'
>
> Well I suppose it is a good sales pitch, but I'm not terribly sure
> that these
> are a network layer problems.
Good point.
However a network architecture is not limited to network layer only
(at least in classroom network architecture goes from physical to
application layers)
I hope that figuring out which layers should hold what
responsibilities would be one of the questions to clarify in this re-
examination of network architecture effort.
> We could move to a network layer with more security that makes it
> impossible
> for network carriers to identify or intercept such dross, which
> might at
> least deal with the crowd who think "filter port 25 outgoing" is
> the solution
> to all the Internets woes ;)
>
