Re: [Asrg] New take on emerging idea. (yet another C-R system?)

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:44:09 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

> sorry, I couldn't read the entire documents. The click ads at the top
> were giving me freaking headers with their flashing and gibbering.

You too?

> But it looks to be a central repository. Any central database is going
> to be subject to attack and subversion, because it's a single point of
> access -- crack the database, you get access to all that stuff. You
> also have to worry about scaling. Even if these things are done on an
> organizational level, it builds quickly -- what works for my home
> machine may not work for one with 1000 users, or 10000, or 100000. It
> gets nasty quickly.

Single point of control and power (power corrupts and...).

Big fat attractive target.  (Who willingly runs a KICK-ME server?)

Big fat high transaction expensive-to-scale system.

Big fat impossible to audit system (admin recidivism -- cf RBLs).

No thanks.

--
J C Lawrence
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
_______________________________________________
Asrg mailing list
Asrg@ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg