There are some influential developers of such technology that would disagree with you on that. Tim Berners-Lee for example has stated that: "The web is more a

There are some influential developers of such technology that would disagree with you on that. Tim Berners-Lee for example has stated that: "The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner." [1] Certainly in the United States it could be useful to have a "philosophy of Internet architecture", mostly because of the market failure in ISPs for the last decade or so. 1. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee#Quotes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee#Quotes