Re: "Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn () mork no>]

Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il> writes:
> On 07/10/2019 17:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:52:26PM -0400,
> >   Phil Pishioneri <pgp+nanog () psu edu> wrote
> >   a message of 9 lines which said:
> >
> > > Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing
> > > UMass Amherst researchers to use cloud-based ‘logically centralized
> > > control’
> > Executive summary: it's SDN for BGP. Centralizing Internet routing,
> > what could go wrong? (As the authors say, "One reason is there is no
> > single entity that has a big picture of what is going on, no
> > manager". I wonder who will be Internet's manager.)
> Centralized Internet routing - sounds like DoH for BGP.

Great idea!  Why don't we just run BGP over HTTPS?  Everyone already has
a browser, so we can get rid of all these expensive routers.

The future is BoH


Bjørn