Dear Noah:
0) "Iterations often
times leads back to the beginning.": Thanks for distilling this
thread to a concise principle. Perhaps your name was given with
the foresight of this discussion? 😉
1) As a newcomer to the
arena, I have always been perplexed by the apparent collective
NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome of the Internet community.
While promoting openness, everything seems to go with "my way or
noway". Of course, each Internet practice or convention was
determined by some sort of consensus by majority opinion.
However, once it gets going, it appears to be cast in concrete.
There is a huge inertia against considering alternatives or
improvements. Some of them even appear to be volunteered
"policing" without full understanding of the background. Just
like how practically all democratic governments are facing these
days, a well-intended crowd can be led by an influencer to
derail a social normality. It does not seem to me that strictly
adhering to "one person one vote" rule can guide us toward a
productive future.
2) To follow what you
are saying, I wonder how could we think "out of the box" or go
"back to the future", before it is too late for our world wide
communications infrastructure to serve as a reliable daily tool
without being a distraction constantly? That is, four decades
should be long enough for our Internet experiments to be
reviewed, so that we can try navigating out of the current
chaos, or start with an alternative.
Regards,
Abe (2022-10-30 18:41
EDT)
On 2022-10-30 12:47,
Noah wrote:
my
favorite is
It's perfectly appropriate to be upset.
Ack....
I
thought of it in a slightly
different way--like a space that we were exploring and, in
the early days,
we figured out this consistent path through the space: IP,
TCP, and so on.
the impact of IP, TCP in improving human life
across the globe in the last decades can not be overstated.
Human enginuity through names like Google have
enabled the age of information and access to information
through addresses and digital trade routes have continued to
ensure peace for humanity on the positive side of the
communications spectrum.
What's
been happening over the last few years is that the IETF is
filling
the rest of the space with every alternative approach, not
necessarily any
better. Every possible alternative is now being written
down. And it's not
useful. -- Jon Postel
I suppose original human ideas and thoughts
tends to stand the taste of time.
Iterations often times leads back to the
beginning.
Noah
