[ih] Snapshot of the Internet

[Jack Haverty]

Yes, I pointed to that map because I found it thought provoking. It 
seems there should be a very interesting "History of the Internet" 
chapter on Governance - how the Internet was steered and developed into 
what it is today.

IMHO, at the beginning of the Internet, governance was pretty much in 
the form of Plato's (and others') "benevolent dictator" structure.   
ARPA, mainly Vint and Bob, were the dictators, steering the Internet by 
controlling the purse strings of funding contracts.   That certainly 
changed as the 'net grew, other players joined, and other societal 
interests exerted influence.

I have no idea how to describe Internet governance today, or how it got 
from there to here.  If someone writes that chapter, I'd love to read it....

/Jack


On 6/5/21 1:29 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> That's quite a map!!  Reminds me of the social clustering  maps I did 
> at UCLA. and Berkeley.
>
> I wonder what that map might say about the notion of governance of the 
> internet based on various kinds of "territory", whether those be 
> national, institutional (e.g. the "nation" of Google+Youtube), 
> protocol (IPv4 and IPv6  - which could be interesting if the 
> substrate, such as 5G were included), etc?
>
> The thought that crossed my mind was how we once divided law and 
> authority (at least in Europe) based on whether the matter or the 
> people involved  were secular or religious.  Could the Internet be 
> moving in a similar direction?
>
>     --karl--
>
>
> On 6/5/21 10:24 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
>> This seemed like it might be of historical interest, and an 
>> interesting way to envision the big-picture state of the Internet today:
>>
>> https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-online-world-mapped-2021/
>>