24 Feb
2012
24 Feb
'12
11:20 p.m.
On 24/02/2012 20:59, Leo Bicknell wrote:
It turns out the real world is quite messy though, often full of temporary hacks, unusual relationships and other issues.
... and, if you create a top-down control mechanism to be superimposed upon the current fully distributed control mechanism, you will soon find that politicians and regulators will take a very keen interest in BGP once they realise that they can turn off specific prefixes from a single point. Whatever about temporary hacks and unusual relationships, the entropy introduced by layers 9 through 12 is almost always insufferable. Nick