[ih] Preparing for the splinternet

vinton cerf vgcerf at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 13:25:04 PST 2022


doesn't seem to sympathize with the Ukrainians however.
v


On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 4:08 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
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