-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/6/13 1:47 AM, Adam Novak wrote: > On 09/05/2013 08:19 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> Tell me what the IETF could be doing that it isn't already >> doing. >> >> I'm not talking about what implementors and operators and users >> should be doing; still less about what legislators should or >> shouldn't be doing. I care about all those things, but the >> question here is what standards or informational outputs from the >> IETF are needed, in addition to what's already done or in the >> works. >> >> I don't intend that to be a rhetorical question. >> >> Brian > > One way to frustrate this sort of dragnet surveillance would be to > reduce centralization in the Internet's architecture. Right now, > the way the Internet works in practice for private individuals, all > your traffic goes up one pipe to your ISP. It's trivial to tap, > since the tapping can be centralized at the ISP end. > > 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. +1. There's already work on things like MANET, but this seems a useful avenue of work. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSKdGmAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pL+cP/3lYe7AP9rkPSYdvSVvt073N sZ5hc4aIC/PDTUTLrZV7dPTsCs0vEqn5kcgm0C/w8KHZ4XFLY1iDJiXebekAZWTd F3jpOgrO1kQZsyb2t65xjasdVAeg9sWZ0+l9epoMa5qLPQeOhD7fVBVmZ2NVccCu k0Js14lJZTsVNMdU9R7pujcvk8uaoqys+Ac+y1ZjCoW26I9Fo357cNVtODyGRBUb ARKOsniaZPrPExPj5ZGIfeOabMEQoy3AvC/O74J+/llqItku+i7iJRqwVTHhRni3 70/A91l3icQ4Ke6uIGio9VHRv/XRJgr2lMBf5qzHneWKdFBUfVqRbSVKZdZS2qzK dB2YOH+Dx847mzKhv+bRo+WgXsjoRLQQziOGeARikbDmMOdXdVP/vGnT++vMksBO FP+T8jTWRStQNU9Uj04geLo/GwOO8/i72FvSfX8FJxmGWq2p9mocInnFM/Tg7dxr zyrVV3Ou9VLzJuIE3xoUT1Xqr//GNgdmELCOQvn4+C866bjKwPkhqtxYpLOoObMK qL8XEe4h5SvE2YKyC1fhhzMVDFZ9dHH9bD8FMsbzUb43/3a1IBk6ti+U85FmjzWH fNbbi+oB5zoRh/ib3yqgQ6sMrPTdwuXu5WnpJBtggALebZ8NNWPB0VCYHXk8nP4u 1Y0TkCGeJFCXG4a7kyTC =Sezw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----