Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

[Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net>]

On Friday 01 Jul 2005 11:28 am, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com 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
> d
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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. 

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 ;)