[LINK] Google's Expresso routing the Internet

[Nicholas English]

Great share Jim, thanks :)
Really fascinating read in so many ways.

It's worth considering how this extrapolates in a a fake news world full of fake traffic ...

> "... 
> TPM: Or, if you could actually push traffic in certain directions intentionally, as opposed to, I guess it’s not really passive, you know, there’s a difference between finding the best route and actually having police officers tell you which way to go.
>  
> 
> Amin Vahdat: Yup, pretty much traffic directors. Absolutely..."
> 
Where does this take us when the algorithms (agendas?) are gaming the space?


Nicholas English
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There will always be a market for tin foil hats while we have electricity ... do we have electricity?!

> On 21 Jul 2017, at 8:32 pm, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Let’s start with a little history. A problem that we were facing was that
> standard, existing routing protocols, primarily Border Gateway Protocol or
> BGP, which is used for all pairing among different networks, is focused on
> individual boxes, and essentially what this means is that they have to take
> a very local view about connectivity. As soon as they can find a path
> between a source and a destination, two computers that want to talk to each
> other across the network, then BGP is happy. It doesn’t try to find the
> *best* path, and it doesn’t try to do dynamic optimisation."
> 
> 
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/17/google-wants-rewire-internet/
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