[ih] Preparing for the splinternet

[Brian E Carpenter]

An insider's view from the splinternet. History in the making, I guess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-t6fBT5uM

Regards
    Brian
On 13-Mar-22 09:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 13-Mar-22 05:30, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
>> On 3/12/2022 8:20 AM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
>>>
>>> Connectivity & Interoperability are what make the Internet useful - and
>>> we've been going backwards since the day we opened the Internet to the
>>> public.
>>
>> That seems an overly-constrained assessment.  A casual view of the
>> activities prior to going public could reasonable produce the view that
>> there has been increasing entropy from the start.
> 
> Correct. (And yes, it is indeed the 2nd law of thermodynamics in action,
> because the network is big enough and random enough for that to apply.)
> 
> Also, there are many examples of segmentation of the network for
> technical, rather than political, reasons.
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8799.html
> 
>      Brian
>