Internet-Draft Alexander Bogdanov draft-bogdanov-cage-00.txt June 2002 Expires: December 2002 CAGE Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Abstract This document focuses attention on some aspects of network technologies development. It does not contain any technical decisions. Nevertheless, it brings up questions, immediately connected with IETF activity. Introduction In this document the following new technologies are viewed: o Unification of the distributed computer resources on a standard basis. o Interaction of various devices through Internet , from simple sensing elements up to robotized compound complexes. o Creation of an infrastructure for self-organizing systems. Undoubtedly, that the majority of people developing these technologies, purposes the good aims. The list of using may be very long and interesting. Many of them are necessary, and will be really used. Positive aspects of it are obvious. Therefore, the backside is viewed only in this document. The given technologies in aggregate will change Internet face. Probably, it is not necessary to give examples from Isaac Asimov's books. It is obvious, that computers and a plenty of devices, which do not associates now with computers, will have some intellect and a possibility of the remote control in the near future. These devices will surround us everywhere - at home, in the street, at the work, in pockets and details of clothes. It might seem, that it is the right Bogdanov [Page 1]
Internet-Draft CAGE June 2002 time to fulfill the main task - changing an infrastructure, which would correspond to new requirements of safety and allowed to keep inviolability of individual life. It is possible to specify here two directions. The first provides creation of the private protected network infrastructure with rigid standards of the equipment, the software and mechanisms of keys distribution. Such structure has the good protection against malefactors and the controllable limited access for law-enforcement bodies. The second direction provides a transparent infrastructure, with the full and uncontrollable access for law-enforcement bodies and the limited access for malefactors. At that, law-enforcement bodies have advantage before attacking and may carry out preventive measures or operative actions immediately. From the safety point of view, the advantage of one method over another is not obvious. The specified directions are mutually exclusive and have no the balanced intermediate decisions. The biometric identification, which does not change the essence of a problem, may be applied in a combination with both of them. The second direction is chosen today. It is specified by the similar tendencies, which are traced during the last some years in the different countries with different political and economic systems, different traditions, living standards and levels of Internet development. Probably on a question - whether we may afford a private global network - the negative response is given. Probably, there is no other way to provide safety today, except shadowing. Certainly, the technical decisions, which allow bypassing these tendencies, exist. However, they will not define the basic network infrastructure. The business of the Internet providers completely depends on the state, and they will not introduce the popular protected decisions. The means of information gathering and storage will be improved. A quantity of video cameras will be established, the network traffic, the mobile phones, the computerized automobiles, the various devices of personal identification will be supervised. The intellectual distributed systems for the analysis of the collected information will be developed. Today, the internal shadowing is considered an obligatory condition of a corporations survival, and it is the justified measure frequently. Tomorrow we'll hear that the total shadowing is a necessary condition of surviving of the state and its citizens. And there are no attributes that it will be otherwise. Maybe the new generation, which is accustomed to video cameras in a children's room from the cradle, will not pay attention to shadowing. It simply will become the norm of life. Maybe will be less people through some tens of years, which concern to intervention in their private life and to restriction of their freedom with indignation and hostility. Or there will be no such people wholly :-((. May be, it is all insignificantly in comparison with the advantages, that the technical progress promises to us. However, the gold cage remains a cage in any case. Therefore, the time has come to change the NET name. Bogdanov [Page 2]
Internet-Draft CAGE June 2002 References [1] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996. Author's Address Alexander Bogdanov Email: a_bogdanov@iname.ru www.umsp.net Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English. The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Bogdanov [Page 3]