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Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

  • From: Jay R. Ashworth
  • Date: Sun Jul 03 13:42:27 2005

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:44:33AM -0500, John Dupuy wrote:
> However, philosophically: security=less trust vs. scalability=more trust. 
> intelligent=smart-enough-to-confuse vs. simple=predictable. Thus, a very 
> Intelligent Secure network is usually a nightmare of unexplained failures 
> and limited scope.

Counter-example: SS7.

Cheers,
-- jra
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