Keith,
On 10-Jul-24 10:40, Keith Moore wrote:
On 7/9/24 18:29, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
One of the weaknesses of the Internet architectural model as insisted
upon by many here is that insisting 'anything can talk to anything'
makes it really hard to secure file servers locking them to only be
visible to the local network.
Why should "the local network" (as a collection of hardware) be
meaningful at all?
It doesn't have to be hardware, because it could be virtualized,
and therefore it doesn't have to be physically localized.
What it does have to be is securely identified, including the
boundary. There are some requirements for that:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8799.html#name-functional-requirements-of-
There are people working on such things. For example:
https://medium.com/dfinity/secure-scalability-the-internet-computers-peer-to-peer-layer-6662d451f2cc
Brian
