ForeThought
Real world is full of people. We have phone books,yellow pages, maps and postal addresses to get to them.
Real world is governed by laws, rules and norms.
Digital world is full of devices and devices only(severs, desktops, appliances, gadgets etc..)
In the digital world, We have DNS, IP Addresses/SMTP mail address, Routers/gateways.
All of these methods are still rudimentery to lookup and locate attributes, features and functions of devices.
Most devices serve a useful purpose. some of them are misused to inflict pain and damage in the digital world.
Clear knowledge attributes, features and functions of devices can hel in reducing the risk and help us in responding to misuse of these devices.
An idea of a Global Directory Service -- for locating Devices worldwide....These devices are attributed to People, Resources and Services....
This type of service can help in Asset tracking, Monitoring, Communications, Incident response, forensics and Data-minig.
One of the attribute of the device is owner of the device.
It is virtually impossible to have this kind directory with current network topologies and IP addressing mechanisms. Most networks rely on Private IP address ranges and isolated using firewalls and NAT appliances.
As world turns more IP based techniques to locate and document devices on a IP network need to be refined and perfected.
Tracing communications and mapping topology of IP networks.
Geographic co-relation of IP networks of IP resources is a interesting idea.
The idea is to tap in the information at all layers of the application stack to automatiatically update the Global directory service for the devices.
There is ray of hope with the new IPv6 Protocol...There a possibility that all these devices an be represented by public IP address.
This may allow us realise the vision of creating Global directory service for devices.
Real world is full of people. We have phone books,yellow pages, maps and postal addresses to get to them.
Real world is governed by laws, rules and norms.
Digital world is full of devices and devices only(severs, desktops, appliances, gadgets etc..)
In the digital world, We have DNS, IP Addresses/SMTP mail address, Routers/gateways.
All of these methods are still rudimentery to lookup and locate attributes, features and functions of devices.
Most devices serve a useful purpose. some of them are misused to inflict pain and damage in the digital world.
Clear knowledge attributes, features and functions of devices can hel in reducing the risk and help us in responding to misuse of these devices.
An idea of a Global Directory Service -- for locating Devices worldwide....These devices are attributed to People, Resources and Services....
This type of service can help in Asset tracking, Monitoring, Communications, Incident response, forensics and Data-minig.
One of the attribute of the device is owner of the device.
It is virtually impossible to have this kind directory with current network topologies and IP addressing mechanisms. Most networks rely on Private IP address ranges and isolated using firewalls and NAT appliances.
As world turns more IP based techniques to locate and document devices on a IP network need to be refined and perfected.
Tracing communications and mapping topology of IP networks.
Geographic co-relation of IP networks of IP resources is a interesting idea.
The idea is to tap in the information at all layers of the application stack to automatiatically update the Global directory service for the devices.
There is ray of hope with the new IPv6 Protocol...There a possibility that all these devices an be represented by public IP address.
This may allow us realise the vision of creating Global directory service for devices.
Comments
Interesting Standard for VoIP....