4 Nov
2008
4 Nov
'08
1:45 p.m.
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
From a technical standpoint, the Internet is always suffering from multiple political failures. This leaves it vulnerable to small technical failures it could otherwise route around.
See above. I do not think it is a "political failure" that I do not give you free transit.
We3 have, I think, a reality failure. The terminology comes from ARP and UUCP days. The reality comes from today, where traffic flows, as a maximum, between nodes that think there is something it for them to allow it to flow. If a packet has evidence of "fare paid" flows. End of story. The difference between "peer" and "transit is the coin used to pay the fare.