references on non-central authority network protocols

Tue Apr 16 16:39:15 UTC 2002

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:22:56 PDT, Bruce Williams said:
>
> > better than geo based models.  Possibly a dynamic public/private key - the
> > host provides part, the routers adds a wrapper of based on it's public key,
> > and routes based on a dynamic traveling salesman solution using current
> > network metrics. Blue Sky!
>
> At OC-192 speeds? ;)

I think this says it best:

   The goal of a scientist is to find an interesting problem, and live off
   it for a while.  The goal of an engineer is to evade interesting
   problems :)"  -- Vadim Antonov <avg at kotovnik.com> on NANOG

Scott