begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:36:34PM -0700: > Yesterday's slashdot had a link to A Van Jacobson talk: > "A New Way to look at Networking" > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&hl=en
Any transcripts? > Warning: starts to play w/o asking [I wish it didn't do that!]. > > There are probably many quoteworthy remarks, but I liked this one: > > "Integrity and trust are properties of the data, not of the way that > you obtain it." Um, not so much. See the discussion about the color of bits (on -kooler?) not too long ago. > The general gist was that the internet (eg, TCP/IP) gave a new viewpoint > of a "side effect" in telephony networking (namely, conversations), and > now it's time to consider a new viewpoint of a new side effect -- > related to the dissemination of data. Conversations were a side effect of telephony neworking? I thought they were the *reason*. > In each case, the old world was stuck within a viewpoint that did not > address the new problem. TCP/IP made explicit the concept of endpoint > addresses, and discovered a new definition of "network". Now we need to > make explicit the identification (&cetera) of data. TCP/IP gives circuit-switched semantics to a packet-switched network. I thought endpoint addresses predated TCP/IP. > Another way of saying it is that a new solution to the old problem is a > waste; what's needed is recognition that the problem has changed, and > investment in new viewpoints. > > ..well something like that. Sounds like marketing hype. -- Beware announcements of paradigm shifts -- or calls for such. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
