The reason behind 'the Web' resembling the mess unfortunately best exemplified by 'the Net' has a much simpler and trivial reason: We have globally networked l

The reason behind 'the Web' resembling the mess unfortunately best exemplified by 'the Net' has a much simpler and trivial reason: We have globally networked local Networks of locally networkable Networks and most of us naively think that this Global Network of Local Networks networking Local Networks actually functions as a universally internetworking Internetwork of universally internetworkable Internetworks internetworking internetworkable Internetworks internetworking internetworkable Networks[([¹]1)], because we trust the people who've labeled both IPv4 and IPv6 as the "Internet Protocol" despite it not in any way, shape or form having the ability to perform what the people who came up with the concept of internetworking (no, NOT the ARPA people.) actually meant by the term.[2] As the simplest proof of this fact: We've almost reached 2020 and all of our 'solutions' for multi homing don't ACTUALLY work in a not-pants-on-head-dysfunctional despite the fact that we've faced that issue since, to quote Wikipedia, "In 1972, Tinker Air Force Base wanted connections to two different IMPs for redundancy. ARPANET designers realized that they couldn't support this feature because host addresses were the addresses of the IMP port number the host was connected to (borrowing from telephony)." Our 'Inter'net at the moment still resembles just a global network, aka just plain old phone calls, with extra steps. Which explains both the mess we call the WWW, and the global dominance of large telcos.Can't give an AS number and BGP access to just anyone[([²]4)] , as we know ever since L0pht Heavy Industries testified before the US Senate, over 2 decades ago, back in 1998.[3] NOTHING has fundamentally changed about this since. We've just written bigger and bigger macros ignorant of why we keep having to fight windmills & having to reinvent the wheel over and over again. [1 (¹ yes, I did intentionally phrase that in & as a reference to a certain Cisco exam question.)] [2 see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108796, but also see http://ict-arcfire.eu/index.php/rina/ http://ict-arcfire.eu/index.php/rina/ & http://ict-arcfire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OCARINA-industryday.pdf http://ict-arcfire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OCARINA-ind... ] [3 https://youtu.be/VVJldn_MmMY https://youtu.be/VVJldn_MmMY] [4 (² Of course, I don't advocate that we should. No. I do however argue that each of these situations shouldn't exist in the first place.)]