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Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Sat Apr 13 19:49:00 2002 
Thus spake "Patrick Thomas" <[email protected]>
> I am looking for any and all research (and perhaps your
> comments), references, etc. regarding replacements for the
> TCP/IP protocol that do not require centralized authority
> structures (central authority to assign network numbers).

Please explain how you think any protocol could support non-trivial numbers
of users without some arbiter to prevent address collisions.

There are several alternatives to TCP being researched, but there are
currently no viable alternatives to IP.

S