[reilly3000]

That is why I'm of the mind that both canonical identity and permission need to be managed in a globally distributed fashion with blockchain. In order to facilitate the level of data transfer that would need to happen between devices to accommodate the distribution of global scale permission data, networking does need to change fundamentally.

I envision my fridge having a permission entry that neighbor can use my car tomorrow, and also that a person I will never meet has purchased a ticket for a flight to Argentina next week. That data is constantly being shared on a mesh network with my car and everybody else's I drive down the road next to, across all of my devices and those of every other participant. No government or corporation should be able to have the whole set of data, and none of it should be able to have a very long half-life.

The only way we can move forward to a truly connected version of the future is with trust, and the only way to have a truly trusted security model is to have it be globally distributed. NDN may or may not be the next version of networking to support it, but I'm rather confident that TCP/IP isn't going to be the way we get there.

[chrisbolt]

As much as I like the idea that all communications should be confidential, your response doesn't refute the original poster's point, which is that any architecture that is impervious to eavesdropping would not be adopted by parties who want to impose their desire to eavesdrop on it, which is (according to the original poster) 95% of the world population (and their governments). (citation needed)