Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2007-10-26
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
18 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
The fragmented nature and asymmetry of local and remote file access and network access, combined with the current lack of robust authenticity and privacy, hamstrings the current internet. The collection of disjoint and often ad-hoc technologies currently in use are at least partially responsible for the magnitude and potency of the plagues besetting the information economy, of which spam and email borne virii are canonical examples. The proposed replacement for the internet, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), does little to tackle these underlying issues, instead concentrating on addressing the technical issues of a decade ago. This paper introduces CANE, a Content Addressed Network Environment, and compares it against current internet and related technologies. Specifically, CANE presents a simple computing environment in which location is abstracted away in favour of identity, and trust is explicitly defined. Identity is cryptographically verified and yet remains pervasively open in nature. It is argued that this approach is capable of being generalised such that file storage and network access can be unified and subsequently combined with human interfaces to result in a Unified Theory of Access, which addresses many of the significant problems besetting the internet community of the early 21st century.
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