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[ NNSquad ] Re: Ars technica on BGP concerns
Of course. The Internet routing system is modeled after SS7 with hard outer shell and a soft trusted inner core. Oh, the outer shell isn't hard. So what do you expect? Like the DNS it is designed to fail! The answer is not more "security" in the style of ITU's hierarchical authority system. It doesn't help that we have a hyper-complex routing system that doesn't take advantage of the fact that most physical devices in the infrastructure don't move around. Instead we not only assume everything is in motion, we also have to route around arbitrary telecom pricing and settlement system. On top of that, as per the DNS, we expect the network to keep track of the end points. The post office knows routing a lot better than the IETF. It has a (relatively) stable infrastructure and leaves it to the users to map their location to a network transit point (AKA, a physical or logical address). The irony is that mobility would be easier if we didn't try to collapse routing and naming into one system with a single identifier that was good for neither. This is why we need new protocols that aren't dependent on naïve trust and need an infrastructure that isn't primarily about creating billable events. -----Original Message----- From: nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org [mailto:nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of Lauren Weinstein Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 20:58 To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org Subject: [ NNSquad ] Ars technica on BGP concerns Ars technica on BGP concerns http://bit.ly/fDLhHC (ars technica) --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator