[81908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Jul 3 13:41:49 2005
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:41:20 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.2.20050701104037.04912fb8@mail.socket.net>; from John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net> on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:44:33AM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:44:33AM -0500, John Dupuy wrote:
> However, philosophically: security=less trust vs. scalability=more trust.
> intelligent=smart-enough-to-confuse vs. simple=predictable. Thus, a very
> Intelligent Secure network is usually a nightmare of unexplained failures
> and limited scope.
Counter-example: SS7.
Cheers,
-- jra
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