[e2e] Skype and congestion collapse.

[Cannara]

Well, er, yes -- if you mean easy to exploit for functional 'advances' for
humanity's benefit, like spam, cons, identity theft, yadda, yadda.  Other
packet networks, especially corporate, worked just as well, and had access
control -- what a concept!  And, just think, every Cisco VoIP switch has to
have a fixed geographical location and a POTS line, if its users want to have
a 911 call bring the rescuers to the right country, state, county, city,
street, bldg., floor, etc. (planet is understood, so far :).

Alex


"Lars-Erik Jonsson (LU/EAB)" wrote:
> 
> > Syed, the misconception is that apps are to manage network
> > resources.  That's not how more robust systems, like the
> > established telco and private network systems work.
> > Systems must protect themselves, even a car's gearbox,
> > from external abuse.  The Internet is only different in
> > that attention wasn't paid to doing that in its design.
> 
> And thanks to that, the Internet became conceptually simple,
> flexible, inexpensive to use, and to the benefits of the
> users, as opposed to the telco systems.
> 
> /L-E