[Chapter-delegates] The Future Internet

[Fatima Lasay]

Dear Oliver and  Sivasubramanian,

I am very interested in questions of "The Future of the Internet" and of
the Internet model/s.

Our founding member Rodel Urani has also earlier posed a question on our
mailing list about the Internet model - and asks *why* is it modelled as
such?

I am very interested in funamental questions such as these.

By the way, do you have a text of the Kelly video? I use dial-up and
cannot access video.


Oliver, if you are organizing an on-line discussion abou the ITU
document, I would also be interested.

Best wishes,
Fatima Lasay
Internet Society Philippines



Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:34:08 +0530
From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] The Future Internet
To: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
Cc: Chapter-delegates <Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>

Hello Oliver,

What are the visions of the Internet Future that are in conformity with the
Internet values?  Lynn St Amour has talked about the Internet Model as part
of her speeches in various forums, Vint Cerf has briefly outlined a
prediction, but is there an ISOC-like document on the Future of Internet?
Or, more precisely, what OUGHT TO be the Future of the Internet? Has ISOC
spelt out its vision? Or are there any documents that ISOC considers as
outlines in conformity with the Internet values?As we see wrong ideas such
as the ITU's erroneous ideas on the Future of Internet gets published it is
important, not only to counter that by comments and email debates, but more
effectively by preparing a blue print, complete with arguments as to how
telecoms and other businesses can prosper well within the Internet Model and
with arguments to show how Security concerns could be addressed without
introducing draconian legislations. If we don't have one, it is time we
prepared one.

Visions of the future are always fascinating, but only a very few people can
see through how a certain program or proposal would upset the Internet
model. I have recently posted two videos in the chapter blog
http://isocmadras.blogspot.com from TED. One is a Talk by Kevin Kelly on the
"next 5000 days of the Web", which is very interesting as a blog post. There
are several such resources, but which of these visions could be dubbed as
the right concepts and inspirations?  What is right and what is wrong?

May be we need an INET with the theme "Future of the Internet"?


Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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2009/5/7 Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>

 >  Hey everyone,
 >
 > The ITU has recently released a free document (Hip hip hurray! Finally a
 > free document from ITU !), describing their vision of The Future 
Internet.
 > This might not be their sole vision, but it is one vision.
 >
 > http://www.itu.int/oth/T230100000A/en
 >
 > I have found the document to be interesting reading. However, I have 
found
 > several instances where a question is raised for the sole purpose to 
instill
 > doubt in the reader's mind wrt the Internet being able to evolve. Is 
this a
 > special writing style? Is this wanted? There are plenty of question marks
 > looming about the subject.
 > Another interesting part is Annex A, where the authors provide a list of
 > the current ITU-T study groups working on Internet-related matters. 
It looks
 > like a well orchestrated choice of subjects. Is ITU planting its 
fence posts
 > in the standards field, in time for future networks? Indeed, can I ask a
 > burning question: is there Internet space for two standards bodies - 
IETF &
 > ITU - in those subjects?
 >
 > Of particular importance is the last line of the conclusion:
 >
 > "As a result, this Report has surveyed the debate over Internet
 > architecture, and identified key emerging trends and features of the
 > Internet, in an attempt to provide pointers for future standards work for
 > consideration by the ITU-T membership and the broader standards 
community. "
 >
 > So the ITU's back on the forefront of Internet-related standards - or at
 > least, it plans to be.
 >
 > I'd be interested in hearing what others think about this document.
 >
 > Kind regards,
 >
 > --
 > Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD
 > http://www.gih.com/ocl.html