Tapping the Internet

• Packet-based.

• International.

  • No strong notion of real-world geography.

• Strongly layered architecture.

  • Fields at different layers may be intended for different parties.
  • One layer’s content is another layer’s signaling.

• Strictly in-band signaling.

• Ubiquitous shared facilities.

• Intelligence at the edges, not the middle.

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