On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:59:57PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > NOOOOOOOOO.......never heard of a father wanting to bastardize his > legitimate child before...
The Internet is just a transport layer between any two points. The more knobs the interim fabric has the more potential for abuse and screwup. Any authority (address, namespace, routing whatever) is a single point of failure. As things stand the current network architecture is doomed. We can make a list of what a future network must do. So far, there are no candidates to even cover parts of the requirements. Meanwhile, we have to survive by building next-generation networks as a virtual layer on the existing one, and then swap it (tunnel the old-style protocols over the next-generation fabric). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
