White House Sounds Call For New Internet Standards

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu Aug 1 02:19:12 PDT 2002


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Lucky Green wrote:

> > Clarke, said it might be time to replace the "creaky, cranky" 
> > 20-year-old protocols that drive the Internet with standards 
> > better able to accommodate a flood of new wireless devices. 
> > Wireless devices, it is feared, may introduce large security 
> > holes to the network. The White House is working with the 
> > private sector to draft a national plan to secure the 
> > country's most vital computer networks from cyber attack.
> 
> How about IPv6 with IPSEC?

Wireless is the canonical case for geographic routing. Addresses as static
or dynamic positions in space (either mutual time of flight or deriving
refinable position from connection constraints), packet routing as the
crow flies, local-knowledge routing tables that only know about a few km
space around you, almost no admin traffic. Plus, routing logic thin enough
to fit into deep embedded footprint, or be cast in hardware for
relativistic speed cut-through.

IPv6 can't handle most this, especially on the scale required. There's
point in going IPv6, but at the same time one must be aware that this is
just a patch, not a fix.





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