Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 9/21/2013 9:40 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> 1) Encourage protocol designs that rely on peer-to-peer transmission,
> rather than intermediate relays, because relays are natural targets
> for interception services.

Unless you are interacting on the same local net segment, when is
Internet communications not through a relay?  Router, MTA, Web cache,
whatever.

Given that, ultimately, there are always routers, what is the realistic 
improvement you are suggesting?


> 2) Encourage distributed services over centralized services. For
> example, social networking services today are heavily centralized.

+1

Except that essentially all services other than email have gained 
popularity in centralized form, including IM.  So there appear to be 
some important and difficult operational and usability barriers, 
standing in the way of more truly distributed applications.


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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