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Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

  • From: Lixia Zhang
  • Date: Fri Jul 01 11:57:20 2005 
On Jul 1, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Simon Waters wrote:


On Friday 01 Jul 2005 11:28 am, [email protected] wrote:

I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that we could benefit from some
fundamental changes to Internet architecture.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html? tw=wn_6techhea
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Dave Clark is proposing that the NSF should fund a new demonstration
network that implements a fundamentally new architecture at many levels.

'"Look at phishing and spam, and zombies, and all this crap," said Clark.
"Show me how six incremental changes are going to make them go away."'

Well I suppose it is a good sales pitch, but I'm not terribly sure that these
are a network layer problems.
Good point.

However a network architecture is not limited to network layer only (at least in classroom network architecture goes from physical to application layers)
I hope that figuring out which layers should hold what responsibilities would be one of the questions to clarify in this re- examination of network architecture effort.


We could move to a network layer with more security that makes it impossible
for network carriers to identify or intercept such dross, which might at
least deal with the crowd who think "filter port 25 outgoing" is the solution
to all the Internets woes ;)