Possible Internet Split (plan D)

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:

> The problem with Plan D, if implemented over the current Internet, 
> is that the low levels of the internet are a tree rather than a 
> proper network.

Which is where a distributed grass roots wire-less network based on 'small
world networks' comes into play. In general this new network layer will
have two components. The first are 'static' within a region. This includes
both fixed point and mobile users in that locale. The second, and to date
pretty much ignored aspect, is long-distance long-haul. The answer here is
automobiles using the same sort of technology as above but tied to
highways and byways.

Small Worlds: The dynamics of networks between order and randomness.
D.J. Watts
ISBN 0-691-00541-9

> There are choke points and listening points at 
> which all of a particular person's traffic can be guaranteed to 
> be intercepted.  Every packet that traverses the internet can be 
> queried to see where it's going, where it came from, how many hops 
> it has left to live, etc.

Only if we keep letting 'them' take the lead in the standards definition
and implimentation. This is the true power of Open Source software, it
allows the individual to select what they will use, as opposed to some
dicta from 'them'.

> Every "solution" to these problems requires identifiable nodes to 
> traffic in detectable types of packets over an increasingly monitored 
> and controlled infrastructure.

Beep, wrong answer.


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