Is the final conclusion from the discussion in this thread that features innovation in the future is in the application not the network ?
Thanks Hesham On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 2:01 AM Stewart Bryant <stewart.bry...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have no idea when I last sent a packet from my client host to any > other client host. > > I can give two examples from the world of amateur (ham) radio: > > I used echolink (VoIP) to a local repeater. > > I received DX Cluster spots (reported observations of interesting > stations) from a service provided by a local amateur. > > However I completely accept that there is no economic foundation for these > services and the design of these services is legacy. > > Try as hard as I might I cannot think of any non-local service that I use > that is fully peer-to-peer outside the sphere of amateur radio, which is > itself a communications interest. > > I can see compelling economic reasons for the development of the Internet > in the direction that Geoff describes. The services I described above do > not fundamentally require the 40 year peer to peer internet architecture > and can/would migrate to another design if economics required it. Indeed in > the latter case web hosted alternative services emerged some years ago. > > What is important is that we play the cards we are dealt not the ones we > were dealt in the last game. In other words we need to design for the > Internet as it will be, not the Internet we designed before and not the > Internet that we would wish for but which is not economically viable. > > - Stewart > > > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > Int-area@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area >
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