problem of the Internet normal accidents (not just a recommended book anymore) dave plonka's talk from yesterday several other examples of hard coded IP addresses wreaking havoc DNS: chock full of inability & need to evaluate macroscopic performance caida rfc1918 paper, effect of anycast traffic, etc common now to deploy a half a million homogenous Internet hosts low price point dramatic change in Internet OS landscape what happens when each bic lighter has an IP address? market pressure forestalls adequate testing not that we even know what that means testing for tomorrow's Internet: an intractable task lack of body for specification and conformance with RFC-defined standards by designers/manufacturers/vendors http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-loughney-what-standards-00.txt no underwriters laboratory (ul.com) for things that talk to the Internet includes fighting back when needed measurement functionality is unsupported who would take this on? if this doesn't happen on its own, will some www.dhs.gov spirit force it?