> Today we can rarely if ever agree on any kind of protocol or standard, and if we do, it's usually a huge bloated mess. So the question becomes, how do you kn

> Today we can rarely if ever agree on any kind of protocol or standard, and if we do, it's usually a huge bloated mess. So the question becomes, how do you know whether you're going to get a huge bloated mess or the Internet, and how do you influence the outcome? As the number of potential 'experts' increases and the number of people involved in choosing them increases, you get something that looks more and more like a market, but without price transparency...