[ih] Preparing for the splinternet

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 14:13:58 PST 2022


On 13-Mar-22 10:25, vinton cerf wrote:
> doesn't seem to sympathize with the Ukrainians however.

I assume he has to be careful what he says.

     Brian

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> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 4:08 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto: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 <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 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8799.html>
>      >
>      >      Brian
>      >
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