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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's fine and all, but if TCP/IP is no longer in play, how would a network like this even get started? The ISPs won't support it and there would be no way to connect nodes other than go to back to sending tones over phone lines or attempt some type of mesh network.

By the way, Internet 2.0 already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I agree. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it would be a very steep uphill battle. What we have now works great and we shockingly got the rest of the world to agree on it. The current OSI model provides a lovely blank canvas for all sorts of communication. Can it be improved? What system can't? But from the days of ARPAnet to now was a long journey and this new Internet would have to start at the beginning and come into being like the Internet we all use today. I'm not interested in using dial-up again or waiting years to get "new" broadband. Too much investment is needed for such little reward.

Also, I feel like the author of this idea needs to brush up in their Internet history because it can't be called Internet v2 for the reason you said.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a concept, frankly I don't think our govts or corpos will have any interest in this 😂 but we need to think privacy at a network level

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I get it if the goal is to explore ideas, but any serious proposal that starts with "get rid of TCP/IP" isn't a serious proposal because that stipulation alone makes it dead on arrival. Unless you could convince major internet backbone providers to adopt a complete replacement because of fantastically convincing reasons, dropping TCP/IP simply isn't going to happen. Case in point: we've had a pretty damn good reason to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6 for decades now and we all know how well that's going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

we've had a pretty damn good reason to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6 for decades now and we all know how well that's going.

mic drop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

maybe not today or tomorrow, but having an idea floating around helps people consider it in the far future if an architectural change becomes necessary

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm understanding this right, it would require every router to effectively be a proxy... it's tcp but with every packet masqueraded.

Honestly, hard pass. Knowing the source IP (i.e. where things are actually destined) is useful information for network reliability and performance. It's part of what makes the Internet so reliable, self healing, and snappy.

It's also still important to be able to just say "no I don't want anymore traffic from this machine." IP bans can be used to protect more expensive processing power from misbehaving systems. I don't want to block an entire state (or literally everyone) because one machine was misbehaving (if you can only see one node back, you can only block that one node which is now responsible for all traffic).

This wouldn't even provide privacy from the kinds of folks (governments) that I'd assume you're trying to protect from. They'd still be able to setup a surveillance network inside of ISPs to watch the exchange from A -> B -> C and back. The reason Tor works so well is it's anarchy, anyone becomes an ISP node despite their status on the physical network. There becomes too much to backdoor and too much to watch (without spending billions or trillions to gain a majority share of the Tor nodes worldwide).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If I'm understanding this right, it would require every router to effectively be a proxy

EXACTLY

They'd still be able to setup a surveillance network inside of ISPs to watch the exchange from A -> B -> C

It will be super hard as the packets are not easily uniquely identifiable, and basically impossible if multiple countries are involved. It's the same like trying to take down/block Tor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Have you heard of GNUNet project?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me it just says "download failed 😞" so...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Author turned TCP/IP off on the server ☺

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

probably some issue with decryption...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe try with a different browser or VPN?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but if your site doesn't work on Firefox or through a VPN then it is not worth it for me.

Best thing would be, to make your text just a normal webpage and not a file to be downloaded in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

it should work on firefox with a VPN tho, unless you are blocked by cloudflare...

It's a secure cloud storage, so having a webpage is not exactly possible. Probably the browser failed to decrypt the file, which shouldn't happen on a normal firefox (I use it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Download is failing. Can you give a summary?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would something like Veilid help with this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

isn't that an overlay network running on Top of IP? can't someone just deny access?