And what would we say of architects who continued to build to their original
plan after the bombs had been flying for twenty years and showed no sign of
stopping?
I would prefer the architects with the plans for a bomb shelter.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com>wrote:
On Oct 6, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com>wrote:
The central problem with the Internet seems to be that nearly everybody
who routes traffic thinks it's okay to violate the architecture and alter
the traffic to optimize for his/her specific circumstances - and the end
users and their wide variety of applications just have to cope with the
resulting brain damage.
Objective observation suggests that the Internet architecture *is* that
anyone who wants to can molest traffic in any way they feel fit.
If a bomb hits a famous building, we don't generally call the resulting
rubble part of the building's architecture.
(unless, maybe, it's the Hiroshima Peace Dome, which was repurposed to
commemorate perhaps the worst man-made disaster in history.)
But really, I do not understand why people have to fetishize the constancy
of IP addresses end to end. IP addresses are not particularly interesting to
look at.
It's one of the two fundamental principles on which the Internet is based.
Universal packet format, universal address space. That's IP in a nutshell.
Keith
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