The Internet Is 'Built Wrong'

An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."

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Re:No one can predict the future well

[Grey_14]

well the problem with snmp in particular, is that a lot of small devices use snmp, such as routers, switches, sensors, etc. And those don't tend to get a lot of upgrades that add stuff like pgp, so instead they have to be vlan'd off to some dark corner or just have snmp disabled entirely.