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But... but ... I thought the Internet was supposed to route around damage.
by teeja 13y ago
But... but ... I thought the Internet was supposed to route around damage.
- DanBC 13y agoYes, the Internet has continued to work for me even though whole countries have implemented large scale filtering. I'm not in any of those countries, but no-one ever claimed that the Internet would continue to work in the areas that were damaged. EDIT: Freedomhouse has an interesting article about the state of Jordanian Internet censorship in 2011 and 2012. (http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2012/jordan http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2012/jordan) As an aside: was robustness (routing around damage) ever an aim of the DARPA project? I hear conflicting things, and it seems to be part of the folklore now.
- teeja 13y agoThat's a really good question. The phrase is sometimes called [John] Gilmore's Law. http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-article.html http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-article.h... It has certainly been said many times that DARPA was "researching a decentralized system that would be robust enough to survive and function even if most of the network were destroyed". http://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/internet/history.shtml http://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/internet/history.shtml http://www.ciec.org/trial/complaint/facts1.html http://www.ciec.org/trial/complaint/facts1.html But that was in the event of a nuclear attack - presumably a bit more random than governments with Big Switches. Of course, NO networks, NO re-routing.