[governance] Internet as a commons/ public good: in an Hourglass

[Avri Doria]

On 25 Apr 2013, at 09:31, Lee W McKnight wrote:

> Or just google 'Internet hourglass' and you will get some variations and food for thought. Meaning: a narrow, stable, and rigorously vetted and maintained by the Internet technical and yes academic community  layer that - makes the Internet possible. Tying that to current context:
> 
> Internet -Protocol- (whether v4 or v6) IS a public good. An explicitly - no proprietary rights allowed - internetworking protocol, on which a few billion people's ability to intercommunicate hangs, would anyone's definition of a - global - public good. 
> 
> I presume we may all agree on this? 


We may all agree that it is good, I certainly do, but this in more in mourning the fact that the waist of the hourglass has spread as badly as mine.

We not only have IPv4 + IPv6, we have MPLS over IP, IP over MPLS, IP over MPLS over IP over who knows what, and all sort of other variations.
We have separated control panes from transport and hidden the whole notion of the waist of the hourglass.
We have NATs, we have QoS, we layer inversion ...

If only there was a way to return to having a waist.

avri



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