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...and yet they are possibly the only remaining barrier to stop
politicians from saying "the Internet is unregulated, we need to
regulate the Internet" and TBL from complacently accepting the Web
anniversary interchangeably with the Internet anniversary... since
for most people, the Web <-> Internet is the same thing...<br>
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One diagram explains it to a politician. Over the years, I have used
it on several ministers and suddenly you see that change in their
facial expression. Not that I'd imagine any politician to understand
the OSI layers functionality, but they understand that in a layer
cake, when the icing tastes too sweet, it's nothing to do with the
base of the cake itself. So deal with the icing, not the base. :-)<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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we were first thinking protocol architecture for the Arpanet,
layers were building blocks. They were to be used if and when
they were useful, but it was also envisioned people might skip
layers, insert layers, etc., etc. I turned away from
networking after a couple of years. When I turned my
attention back to network some years later, I learned the OSI
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On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 06:58:04PM +0200, Richard Hill via
Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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>To me, the Link, Internet, and Transport layers are for
sure infrastructure.<br>
>Some parts of the Application layer might be
infrastructure, but much of it<br>
>is not.<br>
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Suppose I invent an experimental transport that I'm using over
the Internet to communicate with two friends. Is it
infrastructure? Maybe sort of -- it's perhaps infrastructure
for the three of us, but it's really just mystery garbage to
everyone else. Now, suppose that I am Google and I invent an
experimental protocol that I deploy to browsers that I give to
everyone (but which is not yet standardized) and that lives in
an application-layer protocol. Is it infrastructure? I'd say
it's hard to claim that it is _not_ infrastructure, and so
we're already in deep trouble with the layer model.<br>
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Further,<br>
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>No, there is not a bright line. Still I think that most
people would agree<br>
>that, at least at present, e-commerce platforms, streaming
services, and<br>
>social media are not infrastructure.<br>
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I am unprepared to speculate what most people would agree to
on this topic, but I'm rather less certain than you seem to
be. I definitely disagree that some parts of social media are
not infrastructure: the uniquity of "login via Facebook",
"login via Google", and "login via Twitter" buttons show that
_at least part_ of some social media platforms are definitely
infrastructure on the modern Internet: accounts in unrelated
services are using OAUTH services that depend on features tied
to a particular social media system identity. If that isn't
infrastructure to you, then we're simply talking about
different things. <br>
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>broadcast evolve, but the basic concept is the same: to
use some medium to<br>
>send the same content to a lot of people more-or-less at
the same time<br>
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But that is not, of course, the overwhelmingly dominant way
that people use the Internet. Clubhouse aside, people are
just not setting their alarm clocks to make sure they watch
their favourite Internet show when it comes on. And they're
not being tidy and careful about (in the case we're talking
about) Candian content rules for who made the production and
who were the performers and so on. The traditional solution
that Canada had for this was to use broadcast licensing to
force the Canadian content to be carried into Canadian homes
even if Canadians often didn't want it. The Internet presents
a challenge to that model, because the Internet doesn't impose
a rigid distinction as to who is a "producer" and who a
"consumer". C-10 (and a host of other similar proposals in
other countries) appear to be an attempt to re-impose those
kinds of distinctions, frequently with implicit or explicit
expectations that the network provide the necessary facilities
to enforce the regulatory prefe<br>
rence. To me, that is a threat to the Internet Way of
Networking, and the Internet Society should oppose it.<br>
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I am sad that I appear unable to convince you of this, but I
suppose we will have to agree to disagree.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
A<br>
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