Re Question. Re Today is a remarkable day for the Internet!

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: October 2, 2016 at 2:14:43 PM EDT
> To: daveb () dslprime com
> Cc: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re Question. Re Today is a remarkable day for the Internet!
>
> Apropos your notes on Dave Farber's IP list about ICANN, IANA, and the US Govt...
>
> I agree with many of your observations about how ICANN and IANA and the US Gov't are affected by the motions and 
> opinions of nation states.
>
> I don't agree that Ted Cruz is an idiot - I think he is a very dangerous and very smart person who is using the 
> ICANN/IANA thing, including this week's legal filings, to T-up the ball in preparation for accusations against the 
> next administration of the form "who is the man who lost the internet".  I fully anticipate the Cruz faction to 
> somehow use the Hillary C==>Ira Magaziner==>ICANN link after the inauguration.
>
> But the larger issue is the continued unity of the net.  I believe that we are on the edge of a major shift in the 
> internet structure. Many fear this and use words with negative connotations, words like "fragmentation".  However, I 
> do not think that the shift I envision will be noticed by any but the most techie of users or be perceived as harmful.
>
> Recently I wrote a note (an overly long note) about why I think that the internet will shift to a system less 
> universal but no less usable than the present one - to something that is more like an internet of internets.  The 
> starting premise is that the IP packet layer end-to-end principle is dead (or at least very weak).  But a new 
> end-to-end principle has risen at the application level.  And when our view shifts to the application level the glue 
> forces that resist lower-level fragmentation greatly diminish.
>
> Anyway you can take a look at the note, it is up at: http://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/internet_quo_vadis/
>
>        --karl--



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