Felt like the article went off into lala land towards the end: “The last couple of decades have seen us stripping out network-centric functionality and replaci

Felt like the article went off into lala land towards the end: “The last couple of decades have seen us stripping out network-centric functionality and replacing this with an undistinguished commodity packet transport medium. It's fast and cheap, but it's up to applications to overlay this common basic service with its own requirements." The result is networks become "simple dumb pipes!" Given that, Huston wonders if it's time to revisit the definition of the internet as networks that use a common shared transmission fabric, a common suite of protocols and a common protocol address pool. Rather, he posits "Is today's network more like 'a disparate collection of services that share common referential mechanisms using a common namespace?'"