Internet DRAFT - draft-bogdanov-cage
draft-bogdanov-cage
Internet-Draft Alexander Bogdanov
draft-bogdanov-cage-00.txt June 2002
Expires: December 2002
CAGE
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Abstract
This document focuses attention on some aspects of network
technologies development. It does not contain any technical
decisions. Nevertheless, it brings up questions, immediately
connected with IETF activity.
Introduction
In this document the following new technologies are viewed:
o Unification of the distributed computer resources on a standard
basis.
o Interaction of various devices through Internet , from simple
sensing elements up to robotized compound complexes.
o Creation of an infrastructure for self-organizing systems.
Undoubtedly, that the majority of people developing these
technologies, purposes the good aims. The list of using may be very
long and interesting. Many of them are necessary, and will be really
used. Positive aspects of it are obvious. Therefore, the backside is
viewed only in this document.
The given technologies in aggregate will change Internet face.
Probably, it is not necessary to give examples from Isaac Asimov's
books. It is obvious, that computers and a plenty of devices, which
do not associates now with computers, will have some intellect and a
possibility of the remote control in the near future. These devices
will surround us everywhere - at home, in the street, at the work, in
pockets and details of clothes. It might seem, that it is the right
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time to fulfill the main task - changing an infrastructure, which
would correspond to new requirements of safety and allowed to keep
inviolability of individual life.
It is possible to specify here two directions. The first provides
creation of the private protected network infrastructure with rigid
standards of the equipment, the software and mechanisms of keys
distribution. Such structure has the good protection against
malefactors and the controllable limited access for law-enforcement
bodies. The second direction provides a transparent infrastructure,
with the full and uncontrollable access for law-enforcement bodies
and the limited access for malefactors. At that, law-enforcement
bodies have advantage before attacking and may carry out preventive
measures or operative actions immediately. From the safety point of
view, the advantage of one method over another is not obvious. The
specified directions are mutually exclusive and have no the balanced
intermediate decisions. The biometric identification, which does not
change the essence of a problem, may be applied in a combination with
both of them.
The second direction is chosen today. It is specified by the similar
tendencies, which are traced during the last some years in the
different countries with different political and economic systems,
different traditions, living standards and levels of Internet
development. Probably on a question - whether we may afford a private
global network - the negative response is given. Probably, there is
no other way to provide safety today, except shadowing.
Certainly, the technical decisions, which allow bypassing these
tendencies, exist. However, they will not define the basic network
infrastructure. The business of the Internet providers completely
depends on the state, and they will not introduce the popular
protected decisions. The means of information gathering and storage
will be improved. A quantity of video cameras will be established,
the network traffic, the mobile phones, the computerized automobiles,
the various devices of personal identification will be supervised.
The intellectual distributed systems for the analysis of the
collected information will be developed.
Today, the internal shadowing is considered an obligatory condition
of a corporations survival, and it is the justified measure
frequently. Tomorrow we'll hear that the total shadowing is a
necessary condition of surviving of the state and its citizens. And
there are no attributes that it will be otherwise.
Maybe the new generation, which is accustomed to video cameras in a
children's room from the cradle, will not pay attention to shadowing.
It simply will become the norm of life. Maybe will be less people
through some tens of years, which concern to intervention in their
private life and to restriction of their freedom with indignation and
hostility. Or there will be no such people wholly :-((. May be, it is
all insignificantly in comparison with the advantages, that the
technical progress promises to us. However, the gold cage remains a
cage in any case. Therefore, the time has come to change the NET name.
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References
[1] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
Author's Address
Alexander Bogdanov
Email: a_bogdanov@iname.ru
www.umsp.net
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