[Chapter-delegates] Unfortunately, the Internet Impact Toolkit is unsound

Dave Burstein daveb at dslprime.com
Wed Sep 9 09:29:49 PDT 2020


People

Columbia Professor Eli Noam, perhaps the Internet's most respected public
voice, pointed out that there was no reason what's valuable about the
Internet required a single system. So long as there was robust
interconnection, there could be many "Internets" with different internal
systems.

There is absolutely no reason the future Internet requires "a Common
Protocol," "a Single Distributed Routing System," or "Common Global
Identifiers"* I think those are good ideas, but can respect those who
disagree. *

Bob Kahn, a founder of ISOC, supports DOA/DONA, a "digital object
architecture." We discuss some of its pros and cons at
https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2016/overview-of-the-digital-object-architecture-doa/

In another example, Verizon, backed by Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, the
Koreans, and the Chinese want "deterministic networking" designed to
guarantee performance. (Like Vint and Andrew, I strongly oppose that and
was one of the few to speak up at the ITU FG2030. It is likely to dominate
our networks in 5-10 years, like it or not.)

I might prefer a system that did a better job protecting my privacy from
government and corporate spying. Others might prefer a system that did a
better job detecting and blocking pornography.
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To be effective, we need to begin with the facts on the ground. In almost
all countries, the Internet is dominated by a handful of companies. I think
we can all agree on this, even if we disagree on the right response.

9 of 13 of our Board are from the U.S., as are many of our senior staff. To
be effective, we should clearly take positions that benefit Internet users
around the world.  We must be very careful not to take positions that
protect U.S. giant companies.

Our policy lead has said ISOC is a place for "Like-minded individuals,"
backed by our current and previous CEO. We've taken that too far, to the
point we are preaching to the converted and not representing the interests
of most people on the Internet.

Andrew, Gonzalo - It's your job to do better.



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