Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

Tue Jul 5 15:44:52 UTC 2005

At 12:41 PM 7/3/2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>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,
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That is a good counter example, although it comes with some caveats. I work 
with SS7 regularly. SS7 should be simple since it performs a simple 
function, it is actually  complicated and complex. But, since SS7 takes us 
away from the human-managed "static routing" of the older (MF?) trunk 
networks systems, it's intelligence creates redundancy and limited failover.

Perhaps Clark will create something that is win-win like that...

(I assume you are giving this as a "intelligent vs. simple" 
counter-example, since SS7 is an example of good scale because it trusts 
blindingly.)

John