Routing at the Edges of the Internet

I trust that some of you have seen this article from a while back: An informative except: "When I open my laptop, I see over ten different wifi access points. Say I wanted to send data to my frien

Re: https

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, wrote: > > +1. If you want signatures, do them properly. Don't pretend a transfer > protection mechanism covering exactly one hop provides real object security, > because it doesn't. > It ensures that what you're getting is the same as what the IETF has on file,

Re: https

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > Makes you wonder. Why is the concept of expiration required?  Did the IETF > expire, die?  Did its value as an Organization go down and only valid on a > year to year basis? As I understand it, expiration is supposed to solve the problem of

Re: https

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ned Freed wrote: >> It ensures that what you're getting is the same as what the IETF has >> on file, > > No, it really doesn't do that. There can be, and usually are, a lot of steps > involves besides the one https hop. > What other steps are there? HTTPS prevents

Re: Routing at the Edges of the Internet

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > > I have a related-but-different example of how end nodes being able to > know/discover direct paths to one another could be useful. Imagine a > busy server network with some web servers over here, some sql servers > over there, etc. All of the

Re: Hyatt Taipei cancellation policy?

On Aug 28, 2011 12:06 AM, "Glen Zorn" wrote: > Good to hear. Getting rid of cookies can save a _lot_ of money & since > you're "at IETF to work" I'm sure you wouldn't mind if the conditions > more closely approximated those of the typical office; no office I've > ever worked in has provided free

Re: https

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Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

On 09/05/2013 08:19 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Tell me what the IETF could be doing that it isn't already doing. I'm not talking about what implementors and operators and users should be doing; still less about what legislators should or shouldn't be doing. I care about all those things, but t

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

You're right that a flat mesh is not the best topology for long-distance communication, especially with current routing protocols, which require things like global lists of all routeable prefixes. On the protocol front, I suggest that the IETF develop routing protocols that can work well in a flat