Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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?
The whole thing has subtitles, so it seems there oughta be transcripts. Wonder where to look for them? >.. >> "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. I believe he's talking about a narrower concept. No doubt my out-of-context quote needs elaboration .. applicable buzzwords are Privacy-Enhanced-Mail, PGP-style web-of-trust (and the inadequacy of cert hierarchy), .. >.. > Conversations were a side effect of telephony neworking? I thought > they were the *reason*. His point is that the telco's viewed a network as a big switch. It just happened to be useful for conservations. You really have to hear his spiel. >.. > TCP/IP gives circuit-switched semantics to a packet-switched network. > > I thought endpoint addresses predated TCP/IP. That may be, but the embedding of addresses in the data was what made a packet switching network different. And more reliable, and more scalable (he says). > >> 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. Yeah, those are my words, don't blame him ;-) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
