On 2013-04-02, Daniel Courville wrote:
... that could be actually useful:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCE5wTt_tjQ>
Sorta, kinda, like what I've been thinking about for a couple of years
now wrt the April Fools' RFC tradition.
My basic idea would be to first describe why something like an "Internet
Incentivization Protocol" is needed. The idea would be to note that
DDoS's are increasingly a problem, so that without diminishing their
incentive value within the IP ecosystem, we should compress them en
route. It'd be far better if a DDoS source just said "please stab
yourself in the eye this many times" to the receiver, than the current
state of affairs where you actually have to pass as many datagrams to
the receiver in order to cause itself to choke. "I mean, think of all
the bystanders, and the children."
Thus, an elaboration of the classic "evil bit", thus far.
But then, you can go deeper. You can actually make that shit somewhat
work by connecting it to certain existing standards. Especially all of
the multicast protocols. At a very fine granularity. If you did it
just right, you could invade all of the relevant multicast standards in
one fell swoop, involving their registered numbers, in order to reserve
just one reserved protocol number from each. Kind of like HTTP response
code 418, "I'm a teapot". Sow some FUD/kittehs in there, just for the
hack of it.
And of course, finally, make it actually implementable and useful, so
that it's not *just* RFC 1149 again (http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/)
but a proper implementation. Because, nowadays you could rather easily
connect the idea with ingress and egress filtering, ConEx, and whatnot,
so that you could suggest it be implemented within the penultimate BGP
router which fails to be compliant. You actually could make it into an
efficient, distributed protocol which compresses DDoS attacks at the
ingress into just a few packets instead of thousands, works over a wide
area, mitigates attacks on the core, yet fans out the attack into its
previous form at the egress.
So as to incentivize the other side. Whence the name. So tell me that
wouldn't be the April's fools' of the decade. I dare you. ;)
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