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Title : PSTNization of the Internet
Authors : Radi Romansky
Bhumip Khasnabish
Filename : draft-rdsx1-intarea-pstnize-internet-00.txt
Pages : 19
Date : 2014-11-13
Abstract:
This draft discusses the features and functions that the Internet
must support in order to be as robust and trustworthy as the public
switched telephone network (PSTN, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Public_switched_telephone_network). In general the PSTN-like
features and functions include verifiable addressing and numbering,
higher privacy and security, increased reliability (no more than
around five minutes of unplanned outage over one year time period),
survivability and resiliency, desirable level of scalability, alarms,
correlation, and diagnosis capability, and local/international level
of accountability. Incorporation of these (or similar) features are
expected to harden the Internet.
The topics related to Internet hardening were discussed during IETF88
technical plenary (http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/88/technical-
plenary.html) in Vancouver, BC, Canada in Nov. 2013. A follow-up
joint W3C/IAB workshop on strengthening the Internet against
pervasive monitoring (STRINT, https://www.w3.org/2014/strint) was
held before IETF89 meeting in London, UK. During the IETF90
Technical Plenary Session
(http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/90/minutes/minutes-90-iab-
techplenary) on Monday, 21 July 2014 in Toronto, Canada the Technical
Topic discussion focused on Network topology and geography. The
presentations revealed that for business relationship and/or policy
reasons, local traffic routinely cross national borders for so called
'efficient' routing, thereby facilitating monitoring, copying, and
surveillance of traffic from users' sessions by both authorized and
unauthorized entities. All of the technical presentations are
available at the website of IETF90
proceedings(http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/90/slides/slides-90-iab-
techplenary-9.pdf).
In this draft, we discuss the requirements for PSTNization of
Internet interfaces, protocols, services, and management and
configuration capabilities.
NOTE: We are looking for additional contributors to update the
contents of Section 2 to Section 6. If you are interested, please
send an email to draft-rdsx1-intarea-pstnize-internet@tools.ietf.org
with the relevant Section Number and Section Title in the Subject
line of your email with an estimated completion time.
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rdsx1-intarea-pstnize-internet/
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