Beating the Crunch
June 01, 2006
By: Nicolas Boillot
The Internet Protocol, the basic building block of our online world, needs an overhaul
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And that’s only one of the ways in which IPv4 is falling behind the times. IPv4 calls for very little in the way of security standards, which is one of the reasons security on the Internet is tough to enforce. If security were woven more deeply into the Internet’s very fabric, malicious hackers would have a much harder time trying to do any damage. An additional protocol, IPsec, helps with Internet security today, but it is not a mandatory part of IPv4. That gives worms, viruses, spyware, and other malware plenty of wiggle room. IPv4 has very little support for real-time applications—telephony, videoconferencing, online games, live sports-watching, and so on—that do not tolerate transmission lags of even a few hundred milliseconds. Although such services are available today, reliability is not guaranteed, so dropped or stuttering connections are common.
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Source: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/
The Internet Protocol, the basic building block of our online world, needs an overhaul
...
And that’s only one of the ways in which IPv4 is falling behind the times. IPv4 calls for very little in the way of security standards, which is one of the reasons security on the Internet is tough to enforce. If security were woven more deeply into the Internet’s very fabric, malicious hackers would have a much harder time trying to do any damage. An additional protocol, IPsec, helps with Internet security today, but it is not a mandatory part of IPv4. That gives worms, viruses, spyware, and other malware plenty of wiggle room. IPv4 has very little support for real-time applications—telephony, videoconferencing, online games, live sports-watching, and so on—that do not tolerate transmission lags of even a few hundred milliseconds. Although such services are available today, reliability is not guaranteed, so dropped or stuttering connections are common.
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Source: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/