[ih] Better-than-Best Effort

[Toerless Eckert]

Any other top level reason for the email issue other than DDoS ?

Wrt to DDoS i think thats the biggest issue that the original internet architecture
does not solve well. Of course you can buy it as an add-on, but unless i am missing something,
there is seemingly no desire to see if/how we could solve it in a standard fashion at the
network/transport layer (as opposed to maybe per-application solutions).

Then again, this isn't even an Internet network layer problem alone, but one of
any platform with fundamentally uncontrolled large-scale any-to-any communication that
can be easily instantiated at large scale, e.g.: within large application platforms for example.

Cheers
    Toerless

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 06:40:59PM -0700, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 8/26/2021 6:34 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> > If it comes true, the Internet will devolve into a set of competing silos,
> 
> People keep using the future tense, for things that are already true.
> 
> Consider just how extremely siloed messaging/email now is, in spite of also
> still having the lingua franca if Internet Mail.
> 
> Consider how often you are told a service runs better on this or that
> browser and how often it actually isn't usable on some other one.
> 
> and so on...
> 
> d/
> 
> ps. The realities of operating an Internet Mail service have now made is
> quite difficult for a small operator to run well, so even that service is
> highly concentrated.
> 
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