Why do you get to decide that, I can't, from a hotel room, call my ISP and put up a web server on my dialup connection so someone behind a firewall can retrieve a document I desperately need to get to them? Why _SHOULDN'T_ I run a web server to do this over a dialup connection? Why do you get
when scp or ftp over an ssh tunnel are much easier/lighter weight? or you could hand out ASNs and run third-party BGP from your hotel room back to the trusted core... there are lots of ways to get your critical content to the right party, some are more cost effective than others. The name "Rube Goldburg" comes to mind here...
The distinction may be blurrier these days, but there *is* a difference between networking and internetworking.
true enough. --bill