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

[Joly MacFie]

With due respect, I don't think Eli merits the accolade "the Internet's
most respected public voice". Vint maybe, and he has made his opinions
known elsewhere on the thread.

For the record Eli voiced this theme at ISOC's 25th Anniversary
InterCommunity event, referencing ISOC's 2017 report ‘*Paths to our Digital
Future <https://future.internetsociety.org/>*‘ Video is here
<https://isoc.live/9408/>.

On the topic of many "Internets", just this week, as I contributed to a
wikipedia debate <https://isoc.live/9408/> on the capitalization of
Internet. It was apparent, from one direct response in particular, that
there are those to whom the whole founding concept of a singular universal
end-to-end network is, if not alien, then abstract and irrelevant. If it
disappears, which is something a major purpose of ISOC is to ensure doesn't
happen, my guess is the Internet (capital I) will eventually come back into
vogue to invoke the halcyon days of yore.

joly


On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:30 PM Dave Burstein via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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. *
> <snip>
>

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