[governance] Re: Russia plans to create independent web / internet

[Avri Doria]

hi,

perhaps i have my naive glasses on again, but i wonder what the real  
so what of all this is.
the Internet is a network of networks.  if someone builds a private  
network of some sort and then wants to have contact with the rest of  
the internet then some sort of gateway, or nat, or or other devie for  
joining dissimilar is put into place and the internet has grown again  
and encompassed more networks and more technologies.

and if someone really wants a private network, like so many  
corporations who have very tight firewalls etc, between them and the  
outside world or like some of these converged new telephone systems,  
so what?  stuff even gets through those firewalls, and i would  
contend that where there is the will traffic will get through.   
traffic will always get through.  and if somewhere it doesn't, and  
people want it to, some new bit of technology will come along to  
enable the traffic get through.  as for firewalls, it is not like  
they don't already exist.  and it isn't lke people aren't already  
finding ways around them.

in my eyes, naive though they be, the really cool thing about the  
Internet through its many years is how is absorbs most any other  
network or technology that rises up.  i see no reason why that should  
not continue to be the case.

i think that if Russia wants to spend its resources on developing a  
new infrastructure, good for them.  and at some point that new  
infrastructure will connect to the rest of the world's  
infrastructure.  and who knows maybe they will come up with some cool  
new technology.  and maybe some people who don't have access in  
Russia will get access.

a.



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