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I dont know about a great firewall, but it certainly needs parallel services. The problem I have is 2 fold. 1. We need more distributed services and less reli
by protocolture 1y ago
I dont know about a great firewall, but it certainly needs parallel services.
The problem I have is 2 fold.
1. We need more distributed services and less reliance on that silly country full of absolute dunderheads I am not allowed to be mean to on this service.
2. We ALSO need to safeguard freedom of communication BETWEEN countries, lest a series of bad events leads to a bunch of countries going permanently dark.
The BGP bomb isnt frightening because you might be left without root service nodes, its frightening because there are people in other countries we get great value out of communicating with.
- immibis 1y agoWe need a hierarchical addressing architecture, so when you (in the USA) want to talk to Amazon you say "talk to Amazon" but when I (in an oppressive regime) want to talk to Amazon I say "talk to Tor gateway, tell him to talk to Timbuktu exit node, tell him to talk to America, tell him to talk to Amazon" We have something like this with phone numbers (dial 9 for outside line) and domains but not with IP addresses. The "internet" used to have it with bang paths. Flat addressing is very good and convenient, but political turmoil easily destroys it, as Russia has already seen and the US is about to see. (Cryptographic flat addresses don't suffer political problems but have different problems with scalability) It would solve NAT, too.
- protocolture 1y ago>We need a hierarchical addressing architecture As much as I love ENS I didnt propose a flat structure. I just think we can have our cake (hierarchies) and eat it to (Not have the yanks at the top/root of those heirarchies)
- hunglee2 1y agoI've come to believe that a great firewall is the only way parallel services might emerge, EU should've done this in mid 2000's