decentralization of Internet (was Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

[Roger Jørgensen <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Adam Novak <[e-mail]> wrote:
><snip>
> One way to frustrate this sort of dragnet surveillance would be to reduce
> centralization in the Internet's architecture. Right now, the way the
> Internet works in practice for private individuals, all your traffic goes up
> one pipe to your ISP. It's trivial to tap, since the tapping can be
> centralized at the ISP end.

excellent idea... any suggestion on how that should be done?

Only one I can remember right now are LISP which sort of create a new
network on top of our current network, and the EID-block drafts being
worked on by some people (including me) tries to address how the
IP-space of this "new" network can be done.

But there must be other ways than through LISP-alike way of doing it?


> The IETF focused on developing protocols (and reserving the necessary
> network numbers) to facilitate direct network peering between private
> individuals, it could make it much more expensive to mount large-scale
> traffic interception attacks.

Think there are work being done on the topic? However, how are you
going to interconnect all of this private peerings? It sort of imply
that everyone need to have their own netblock they can exchange with
others.



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