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Vinton Cerf: ‘I refuse to take responsibility for those who abuse my beautiful internet’ (english.elpais.com)
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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

the person who wrote the article is... not a great thinker but you get some good answers from Cerf, so worth a read.

The first mistake the author makes is thst Tim Berners-Lee is not one of the fathers of the internet but of the world wide web. it runs on the application layet of the internet and came decades later.

The second mistake is corrected by Cerf. the difference between a discovery and an invention.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

The number of times that I have been downvoted into oblivion for pointing out that the Internet is not the World Wide Web is too damn high.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The TCP landscape is now a hot mess of a multitude of assistance protocols. Maybe we'll better start from scratch, with modern usecases in in mind and while learning from past mistakes.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

XKCD #927

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, yeah, but most protocols (like DNS, CORS) are a patch on changed usecases or missed consideration.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

This is practically impossible. We have proverbially locked the keys in the room. IP/UDP/TCP are here to stay due to the prevalence of buggy/nonstandard middleboxes (hardware firewalls, ASIC switches, NAT routers) in the Internet.

We have new protocols, new theories for networking (look at NDN, in which is physically incapable of being censored or ddosed). However, anything that doesn't conform to existing IP/TCP/UDP will get dropped by these so-called "middleboxes". Even things that DO conform to IP/TCP/UDP will sometimes get dropped by these middleboxes (e.g. new TCP extensions, QUIC, etc). We cannot build an Internet replacement without almost fully scrapping every piece of networking equipment deployed since the 90s.

Middleboxes were supposed to be a temporary solution until we could transition to a new protocol like IPv6. Companies went for the cheap solution and violated the end-to-end principle of networking instead. Now we're paying the price and stuck with it.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I'm sure we can vibe something in a few minutes, I'll solve so many problems when we are forced to use smoke signals for the latest memes.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Love it when they ask computer scientists about curing disease. Love it even more when they are silly enough to drum up some sort of answer.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

This interviewer is terrible, but it's not silly to ask. On top of the use of computers for projects like folding@home, there are cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident