Re: How Consolidation is Eroding Internet Resilience

The whole ARPAnet experiment was based on the idea of a network of geographically distributed nodes, heavily interconnected. What the thing we call the Internet today condenses those nodes, so the node count falls to the point that failures are more catastrophic. Further, the administration of the nodes is starting to coalesce, so a single mistake takes out multiple nodes. MBAs are killing the Internet that we used to know. We are going backwards in time, when networks were star networks with a common hub, instead of autonomous network of networks. Another allied issue is the A&R of network equipment suppliers. Fewer suppliers, plus more chance of cross-contamination by bad code, bad documentation, and bad training.