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

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Fri, 06 September 2013 20:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: decentralization of Internet (was Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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On 6 Sep 2013, at 21:32, Roger Jørgensen <rogerj@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Adam Novak <interfect@gmail.com> wrote:


>> 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.

Mobile IPv6 gives one way to run multiple devices in one subnet. Someone needs to be the HA though. And/or if future homes have multiple /64's, it's not infeasible to dedicate one or more to virtual/overlay LANs.

Tim

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