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What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet?
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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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BGP is fragile
DNS is insecure
SMTP is insecure
We patch and plug, layer protocols and encryption.
I think if we started over today, we could do better. But I also think if we started over today, we'd just try to wire in more crypto/blockchain bullshit.
The problem with all software is adoption. Usually it's trying to get people to adopt a protocol or buy a piece of software that causes less than optimal decisions to be made. There have been lots of good replacements for all of the things you mentioned, they just never caught on. And the problem in the beginning when they didn't have those pressures was the hardware and bandwidth limitations.
Yeah it's just a thought exercise hypotheticals. There's no way we'd move off TCP/UDP while it's still capable of doing most of what we need.