[Chapter-delegates] ISOC and its involvement with the IETF

[Borka Jerman Blazic]

One more thought/question:

It is a matter of the level, lower levels and application level are 
today decentralized systems, so is the the IP /TCP  in question 
regarding decentralizing?

Borka


Joly MacFie via Chapter-delegates je 14. 09. 2021 ob 08:28 napisal:
> A couple thoughts.
>
> > Technical people see the beauty of centralized Internet system.
>
> I have to take issue with this. Technical people, in my experience, 
> are great fans of decentralized systems. Decentralization is why 
> TCP/IP won out over OSI etc, after all. Not to say consolidation isn't 
> an issue.
>
> More generally, perhaps a re-reading of The Tao of IETF 
> <https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/tao/> is in order?
>
> As far as representation of end users goes, "usercentricity" was an 
> early ISOC pillar, and I believe is still held in high regard. But 
> this is in a technical rather than a political sense.
>
>  ICANN's At-Large does claim to represent end users 
> <https://atlarge.icann.org/about/index>. See
>
> A couple of years back John Laprise founded the 'Association of 
> Internet Users <https://icannwiki.org/Association_of_Internet_Users>' 
> but it never gained much traction, and he appears to have given up.
>
> j
>
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