[87434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whatever happened to intelligence in the applicattion [Was: Re: The Qo s PipeDream]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Fri Dec 16 14:46:33 2005
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:45:44 -0500
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On Friday 16 December 2005 09:21, Fergie wrote:
> Doesn't anyone really remember the whole smart-v.-stupid network
> analogy? Not meaning to start a flame war here, but trying to stick
> all of the intelligence back into the network is not exactly a win-win
> proposal.
A stupid network is easier for malicious applications to exploit. Need a
balance point, not either extreme.
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Lamar Owen
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