 pcscdmaChocobo Chocobo Random BattlePremium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA | reply to G_Poobah
Re: Deal with it..... ICMP is very useful and it doesn't have that many alternatives.
People expect that if an ICMP packet doesn't come back the machine is offline. Verisign seems to want more $$$ at the expense of RFCs that everyone expects to be there. ISPs start to block port 25. What's next?
Standards exist for a reason. What if each cable company started to 'enhance' (break) DOCSIS 2.0 in their own way?
Actually those kind of monopolies wouldn't suffer that much. There would be a small rise in modem prices and most likely a dispute over what 3.0 would be, if there was one actually being planned after that.
Since the Internet is a competitive public network, I could use mobile phones for an example because of the similarity. Let's say that VZW is tired of people using their analog network with cloned phones. They implement some type of anti-fraud system. Someone using an unregistered phone dials 911 for help. The network is unable to complete the call because it wasn't registered in their database.
So what we are seeing with Verisign, ICMP, port 25 and whatever's next is the 'breaking' of the Internet's funtionality. |
