Let’s just see if the Gen-Z, web3.0, blockchain, and metaverse generation can make pure decentralized peer-to-peer come to reality.
Dino > On Dec 18, 2021, at 5:00 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
