Great share Jim, thanks :) Really fascinating read in so many ways. It's worth considering how this extrapolates in a a fake news world full of fake traffic ...
> "... > TPM: Or, if you could actually push traffic in certain directions > intentionally, as opposed to, I guess it’s not really passive, you know, > there’s a difference between finding the best route and actually having > police officers tell you which way to go. > > > Amin Vahdat: Yup, pretty much traffic directors. Absolutely..." > Where does this take us when the algorithms (agendas?) are gaming the space? Nicholas English Sent from A phone |-) There will always be a market for tin foil hats while we have electricity ... do we have electricity?! > On 21 Jul 2017, at 8:32 pm, Jim Birch <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Let’s start with a little history. A problem that we were facing was that > standard, existing routing protocols, primarily Border Gateway Protocol or > BGP, which is used for all pairing among different networks, is focused on > individual boxes, and essentially what this means is that they have to take > a very local view about connectivity. As soon as they can find a path > between a source and a destination, two computers that want to talk to each > other across the network, then BGP is happy. It doesn’t try to find the > *best* path, and it doesn’t try to do dynamic optimisation." > > > https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/17/google-wants-rewire-internet/ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
