On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:44:11AM +0530, Neil Harwani <neil.harwani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 128 lines which said: > I am not sure whether this idea that I am about to write has been > implemented before The idea is interesting but it is clearly underspecified. Before a serious discussion can take place, you really have to specify it more completely. If you want the discussion to occur at the IETF, an Internet-Draft is the proper form: http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.html Technically, I would suggest to think seriously about the Security Considerations of your Internet-Draft... > 1. Have a variable system built into all OSes which have internet > interface which can allocate space and resources as per what amount > of space and resources are free on the OS. The big problem is to create a jail strong enough so that the hosted programs do not compromise or DoS the machine. This is *not* a trivial problem. > Example : Suppose a server of paypal has to process millions of > records every month. If a high percentage of this processing is > encrypted and sent to container on various systems running on > internet, the same work can be done with less powerfull paypal > servers. Very bad example: first, all Paypal requests require access to the central database. And, second, Paypal would certainly not trust random Internet machines for its processing. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf