[cap-talk] network level designation and authorization

[Karp, Alan H]

coderman wrote:
> 
> ignoring the management overhead usually associated with virtual
> private network administration (they are way more complicated than
> they should be) are there other advantages / disadvantages to this
> approach?
> 
VPNs work, as complicated as they are, when someone is in charge, as is
the case within a company.  Dealing with the identities and access modes
and protocol versions and ... becomes increasingly hard as more
independent parties are added to the system.  Far better and far simpler
is using unguessable addresses as with web-calculus.

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