Iljitsch van Beijnum writes:
> On woensdag, jun 18, 2003, at 21:17 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Braden wrote:
>
> > Since 1980 we have believed that universal connectivity was one of the
> > great achievements of the Internet design. Today, one must
> > unfortunately question whether universal connectivity can be sustained
> > (or is even the right goal) in a networking environment without
> > universal trust.
>
> I think we can safely say that 99.99% of all systems that run IP don't
> want to talk to 99.99% of all systems that run IP. For most people,
> with a network this large, universal connectivity isn't a goal but a
> threat. But this shouldn't be confused with universal addressability
> being undesirable, because this only gets more important as the size of
> the network increases.
Voice challenges this assumption to a very large
degree. In fact, I not only want access to 99.99%
of the other nodes on the net willing to speak
RTP, but I most certainly don't want to be forced
to go through some forced eavesdrop-tapping,
terrorist-witchhunting intermediary that is
subject to the whims of certain fanatics from
Missouri and Utah who are convinced that peetopee
is the spawn of Satan.
Mike
