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The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 21, 2003 @09:47AM from the armchair-quarterback-pipedream dept.

dotnothing writes "I just caught a column on a security site advocating for a total start from scratch as far as certain internet protocols like SMTP. It's an interesting idea and there are some ideas on how to conduct the transition... if everyone would agree on something like this it would definitely reduce the spam (among other things)."

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Re:This says it all... by lseltzer · 2003-04-21 12:00 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm the author of the column under discussion. I hope I got my point across that whatever merit I see in this I doubt it could succeed in less than a long time.

But I don't see the spam filtering and security companies as the main obstruction. I see millions of users and companies who would have to change applications as the real problem. Whatever the benefits, this would be highly disruptive. As others have pointed out, look at how long it's taken to get almost nowhere with IPv6.