[e2e] new network architecture idea -

[Jon Crowcroft]

let me conjecture that any decent future internet architecture
that is proof against the current securiy threats of today's internet
wil be proof agaoinst intercept, blocking, takedown, and surveillance
by _anyone_, whatever their good or bad intentions

so by presenting a half-bakde appproach to preventing ddos, I
am necessarily going to do nnoy law enforcement

of course, i dont see why anyone should enforce _their_ laws on _us_ (or _our_ laws on _them) - its
an outmoded local view:)

In missive <20060503.155818.14160.1115506 at webmail24.lax.untd.com>, "Fergie" typed:

 >>At first blush, it sounds like law enforecement will hate it,
 >>due to inability to determine the end-points. :-)
 >>
 >>I need to think about that for a little while... in the meantime,
 >>I'll read the paper. ;-)
 >>
 >>Cheers,
 >>
 >>- ferg
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>-- Jon Crowcroft <Jon.Crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
 >>
 >>Its that time of year for a new network architecture - rather than build=
 >> an overlay on IP
 >>I reckon the way to build a DOS proof, multipath, resilient network that=
 >> can function in =
 >>
 >>low or high bandwidth, fixed or mobile, lossy or reliable, connected or =
 >>disrupted, topologies
 >>is to built the packet protocol over an overlay - so my bif is to rebuil=
 >>d
 >>IP on Swarms (initial prototype is IPv6 on bittorrent)
 >>
 >>packet swarming systems are nice because
 >>i) you go download your packet, so noone can dos you
 >>ii) topological attacks are hard when you dont know where I am getting t=
 >>he different pieces of the packet from.
 >>iii) incentive alignment thru the token system enforces approximate symm=
 >>etry
 >>iv) multipath is for free and tunable
 >>v) you still have anonimity if you really want it
 >>vi) content addressable (pub/sub/ event/notify) is a first class network=
 >> function
 >>vii) multicast is for free
 >>
 >>of course IP on bittorrent begs the question of what the bittorrent is o=
 >>n....so =
 >>
 >>that's what the NSF proposal would be about (of course i'm not eligable =
 >>for
 >>nsf money:-)
 >>
 >>so this is a free donation to the US NSF proposal writers guild:)
 >>
 >>
 >>cheers
 >>jon
 >>
 >>remember, you have 2 days left to register for REALMAN in Florence:-
 >>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/realman/
 >>
 >>p.s. if the GENI is out of the lamp, who is making the 3 wishes...?
 >>
 >>
 >>--
 >>"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 >> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 >> fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
 >> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
 >>

 cheers

   jon