[P2P-F] Fwd: Internet Evolution, Internet 2.0; post SOPA

[Mark Janssen]

I'm forwarding a message I sent recently to the IANA (later also to IETF),
that I though you might be interested in.  It's about the creation of a
united content-centered Internet, similar to the what happened with
physical netoworking back in the 90's.

mark
Santa Fe, NM

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:08 PM
Subject: Internet Evolution, Internet 2.0; post SOPA
To: iana at iana.org
Cc: ignite at mozillafoundation.org


Hello,

My name is Mark Janssen.  I've been a network engineer "back in the
day" and hooked up my University to the Internet back in 1993 (WHOIS:
MJ24).   I remember when the potential of the Internet seemed
unbounded, with thousands of unique sites that would pop up on the
radar weekly.  I'm hoping this email message gets to some IANA network
architect who remembers and appreciates John Perry Barlow's
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.  Feel free to forward
to others who may be relevant as well.

While to many eyes, there's no problem with the Internet as it stands,
I wish to make the case for the development of Internet 2.0.  (This
touches upon, but goes well beyond the issue of IPv4 address space; in
fact, the solution I'm going to propose makes IPv6 a red-herring --
the right solution to the wrong problem.)

The problem is that the Internet evolved as a server- and geo-centric
phenomenon, where only large institutions could host content and where
one could depend on "always-on" networking; hencefrom came DNS, all
the way to hyper-links and HTML.  Since the government/RIAA shutdown
of Napster and P2P networking phenomenon, this [geo, server-centric]
limitation of architecture has *balkanized* the Internet.  The
billions of users now spend most of their time on so very few sites.
The economic and cultural loss of this is hard to measure, but I
insist that IT IS IMMENSE.

There are a number of us that have been working on these problems,
mostly under-the-radar, debating the solutions for this.  The
networking landscape of 2012 has millions of users with large hard
drives and ubiquitous, mobile network connections, NONE OF WHICH can
host the dynamic content that users are generating by the giga-bytes
*everyday*.  My generation (GenX) has the creative and intellectual
potential to participate in a rich dynamic cultural experience, but
our current economic system fails to provide the engagement to take
advantage of it.  This is part of the impetus of the Occupy Movement
-- we're simply tired of participating in the Industrial Model.

The Internet can provide the alternative for the 21st Century.

What I'm proposing is the creation of a content-centric Internet, a
true web 3.0 -- a Web 3D, where users navigate the internet, not by
domain names, but by interests.  It's tentatively called Pangaia
(pangaia.sf.net).

Take the first 3 to 4 layers of the OSI network stack (up to TCP) and
leave it as is -- that's the physical network.  Then, separate out the
top 3-4 layers, set them *orthogonal* to the physical layers and
create a *unified content-network topology*, wholly independent of the
details of the underlying network Internet 2.0.  IP address assignment
will be dynamic and a function of the hosted content -- a more
efficient fractal-IP layout can occur rather than the fragmented IP
assignments that we have presently.  It would take a killer-app to
pull it off, and I think Pangaia can do it.

The Pangaia project has developed some sophisticated algorithms that
can self-organizing the content of the Internet and scale to the
billions.  It comes out of various research in complexity theory and
analysis of the various problems o community internet sites who have
tried to solve the problems of decentralization without devolving into
chaos.

Pangaia provides what could be called a "Physics of Information", the
rest will be provides by the community.  It will re-organize the whole
internet (the top content layers of course where billions of users
spend a large part of their day).  Think Wikipedia + a voting model
that allows per-revision voting, plus a reputation model.  It will
create a whole new realm of economic activity, and the votes count as
a type of currency.  It is hoped that it will upturn the outdated and
dying Industrial Model and create a new society.

I've been working at this at a non-profit hackerspace/technology
incubator called the Santa Fe Complex (sfcomplex.org) here in Santa
Fe, NM.  I'm writing to you guys to see what awareness there is about
the issues mentioned, and what interest there might be to have further
dialog.  I believe the Mozilla Foundation will be interested (cc'd on
this message) and is working on some similar explorations, but have
not heard from them yet.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,

Mark Janssen
pangaia.sf.net
Santa Fe, NM
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