[ih] "how better protocols could solve those problems better"

[John Gilmore]

Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> Oh well, silly, but good business to physically set up a lot of
> distributed management servers to orchestrate and pinhole traffic
> between remote B and C via HTTPs, when a NOCs A is on the other side
> of the planet. Nobody even thinks about how better protocols could
> solve those problems better.

I am trying to think about exactly this.

I'm involved in an organization (ampr.org) that would like to catalyze
better protocols that could solve Internet users' problems.  We've
invested money sourced from 1980s Internet address space, and are
granting it out to improve the Internet (and ham radio, and digital
radio tech in general).  We're looking for promising projects that
haven't been getting enough attention.  We're hedging against the modern
trend of proprietary companies that never define any public protocols,
because they want everyone to centralize on their own servers and
services.

This internet-history mailing list community contains some of the (few)
people who actually see the Internet as a collection of protocols,
mutually agreed upon for the good of everyone.  If we can indulge in a
bit of "future history", where do you-all see promise in protocol
development that's happening today?  Where were good starts made, and
then abandoned in the past due to the vagaries of history?

What new protocols are or should be in development?

Or, perhaps a simpler question, where are the pain points in current
protocols, even if no replacements are on the horizon?

	John Gilmore