「インターネットって何ですか？」、、、この問いに答えられますか？
ある国立大学の工学部の学生100人に聞いてみましたが誰も答えられませんでした。セールスの電話をかけてきたあるISPのコールセンターのお姉さんも答えられませんでした。そのISPのサポート窓口に電話して、何を売ってくれるのか聞いてみましたが、困っちゃっていました。誰も定義できないものが商品となって街中で売られているようです。
「インターネットはものではない。合意である」by David Weinberger
さて、今日、我々は何を合意しているのでしょう、、、
... And the network would be engineered simply to "Deliver the Bits, Stupid," not for fancy network routing or "smart" number translation.
Fundamentally, it would be a Stupid Network.
In the Stupid Network, the data would tell the network where it needs to go. (In contrast, in a circuit network, the network tells the data where to go.) In a Stupid Network, the data on it would be the boss.
1. Constant Change
The principle of constant change is perhaps the
only principle of the Internet that should survive indefinitely.
2. Is there an Internet Architecture?
2.1 ... However, in very
general terms, the community believes that the goal is connectivity,
the tool is the Internet Protocol, and the intelligence is end to end
rather than hidden in the network.
2.4 Fortunately, nobody owns the Internet, there is no centralized
control, and nobody can turn it off. Its evolution depends on rough
consensus about technical proposals, and on running code.
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