[94443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Mon Jan 22 13:21:44 2007
In-Reply-To: <45B4F699.8050608@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:14:34 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> But I guess it is nonsense.
This is what ssh tunnels and/or VPN are for, IMHO. It's perfectly
legitimate to construct private networks (DCN/OOB nets, anyone? How
about that IV flow-control monitor which determines how much
antibiotics you're getting per hour after your open-heart surgery?)
for purposes which aren't suited to direct connectivity to/from
anyone on the global Internet.
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