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Usage, technology, resources, bottlenecks - all have been changing all along the time and further will change. The ideal solution of today will not be a good so

Usage, technology, resources, bottlenecks - all have been changing all along the time and further will change. The ideal solution of today will not be a good solution for tomorrow. What you call mess, is the result of an evolutionary development that will be replaced by something appropriate when the time has come. Although your question is surely mind-challenging, it assumes that a bright from-scratch design would beat the outcome of the competition of different technologies. I don't believe in that.

c1sc0 19y ago
edited the original to add quotes around 'mess' ... guess I'm just cranky from the javascript nightmares I've been having lately. I agree with letting evolution & competition do its work, so let me rephrase: "Given the opportunity to re-arrange the basic conditions out of which the internet evolved (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, HTML, ...) what would you change." The choices encoded in these standards are as much ethical/philosophical as technical. Do we value security? Openness? Speed? I agree with IPv6 & getting rid of NAT on a technical level. What else?
- LogicHoleFlaw 19y ago
  Get the technical level right and the rest will come. Mechanism, not policy.
dennykmiu 19y ago
That's exactly what Vint Cerf said, the men who invented the Internet. http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2008/04/vint_cerf.html http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2008/04/vint_cerf.html