Il 15/11/2021 10:29 Vasilenko Eduard <vasilenko.eduard@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>Listening to Geoff Huston's well thought out predictions on the future of the Internet, https://youtu.be/cx2G5QxS9Eo
From 1:01:00.
IMHO: only “stationary bandit” (I mean “Government” by definition from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancur_Olson)
Could save the Internet from monopolization. Only a brute force approach would work here, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil.
Geoff, good news, It is never late for a government to fix this problem. They just need to spot it.
Of course, they would fix it in a way that not many would like
Indeed, the last few years have seen a sharp turn in public Internet policies even in "Western" countries, with much stronger regulation in the making to address the centralization that has happened in the last 10-15 years and the resulting issues of economic power, taxation, competition, privacy, democracy and content moderation. This is also due to a change in the perceived threat model; while we used to focus only on attacks from within the network, now most of the problems come from the behaviour of the endpoints (not the human ones, the software ones).
How this should affect Internet standardization is a discussion that apparently still needs to be had. IMHO this community seems to be quite late in accepting or even realizing the problem in respect to others. In the end, technical standardization alone cannot solve centralization issues, but could at least make sure not to worsen them, e.g. by making sure that new technologies do not assume or prompt a limited number of operators, and if possible include whatever it takes for people to implement them in free software, deploy their own new operations or even self-host their services as a user.
-- vb.
