Re:Education of a Programmer
by Animats on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:08AM
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The "end to end argument" in that paper reflects the issue of how dumb the network should be. This goes back and forth. With telephone switches and Plan 55-A message switching, all the intelligence was in the network. With the ARPANET, the network did reliable delivery, but the work was distributed among the dedicated network machines. IP was pure dumb datagram, which was controversial at the time. It still is; the last few years have seen the proliferation of non-transparent middle boxes, from the Great Firewall of China to Comcast to Cloudflare to Google.
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Re:Education of a Programmer
by loup-vaillant on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:03PM
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One day we'll have 2 available outgoing ports: 80 and 443 —the web. IPv6 won't be needed because nobody will have servers, and can all be served behind a NAT. Email will go through webmail interfaces, and there will be a couple dozen providers in the whole world. Anything else will instantly be rejected as spam —only spammers use small providers anyway.
We will see conspicuously interesting ads, thanks to ever more accurate, automated analysis of our communications and browsing patterns. Sometimes, such analysis will be performed to stop criminals (mainly terrorists, paedophiles, and intellectual thieves).
How about getting our shit together and starting to fight this nightmare?
Re:Education of a Programmer
by contingencies on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:35PM
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The best summary quotation I have in https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup is ...
Upgrade cost of network complexity: The Internet has smart edges ... and a simple core. Adding an new Internet service is just a matter of distributing an application ... Compare this to voice, where one has to upgrade the entire core. - RFC3439 (2002)