[ih] Better-than-Best Effort

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/26/2021 6:34 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> If it comes true, the Internet will devolve into a set of competing silos,

People keep using the future tense, for things that are already true.

Consider just how extremely siloed messaging/email now is, in spite of 
also still having the lingua franca if Internet Mail.

Consider how often you are told a service runs better on this or that 
browser and how often it actually isn't usable on some other one.

and so on...

d/

ps. The realities of operating an Internet Mail service have now made is 
quite difficult for a small operator to run well, so even that service 
is highly concentrated.

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net