"Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

[bjorn at mork.no (Bjørn Mork)]

Hank Nussbacher <hank at 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 at 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 â??logically centralized
>>> controlâ??
>> 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