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Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 09, @11:33AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes:

The co-creator of the Internet's protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks:

Vint Cerf, the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor for "co-creating the Internet architecture and providing sustained leadership in its phenomenal growth in becoming society's critical infrastructure," didn't have a perfect view of the Internet's future. In hindsight, there are a few things he admits he got wrong. Here some of those mistakes, as recently told to IEEE Spectrum:

  • 1) "I thought 32 bits ought to be enough for Internet addresses."
  • 2) "I didn't pay enough attention to security."
  • 3) "I didn't really appreciate the implications of the World Wide Web."

These are only his top three - can you think of some that are missing from that group? What about any mistakes that aren't top 3 but still in hindsight should have been done differently?

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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday May 10, @05:15AM (1 child)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Wednesday May 10, @05:15AM (#1305656) Journal

    Actually, one part of my private LAN security is found on premise the jumbo packets will never pass to outworld, because they can't get through the router nor through wifi nor through phone data no matter what MTU or fragmentation set or whatever. :D

    That really helps with NFS risks, especially with NFS on ipv6.

    Also, many IoT thingies cannot even observe jumbo packets because of hardware limitations of their network chips.

    A critical design factor of such LAN construction is in buying industrial grade switches (yes, pure switches, not usually vulnerable managed routers!) capable of jumbo packets and dedicate gateways for doing their gatewaying job only.

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeRandomGeek on Wednesday May 10, @04:12PM

    by SomeRandomGeek (856) on Wednesday May 10, @04:12PM (#1305729)

    While I agree that is a nice hack to help improve your security, it is also a good example of what is so broken about MTU. Finding a way to put a broken feature to use does not make it less broken.