[Air-L] VIDEO: Geoff Huston on the future directions of the Internet

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Fri Mar 17 03:21:39 PDT 2017


To my own credit. I actually raised the 'content castles' issue with the
Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values way back in 2012 at the
Azerbaijan IGF. https://youtu.be/Je36zEtQSvk?t=2811 Unfortunately I did not
get much of a response.


joly posted: "At the recent APRICOT Conference in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist at APNIC, gave a rather dystopian
view of the Internet's future, referring to the current period as a "gilded
age" - a late 19th century trope, coined by Mark Twa"



At the recent *APRICOT Conference <https://2017.apricot.net/>* in Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam, *Geoff Huston*, Chief Scientist at APNIC, gave a rather
dystopian view of the Internet's future, referring to the current period as
a "*gilded age <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age>*" - a late 19th
century trope, coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, that
described the rise of an oligarchic veneer that masked underlying social
malaise. What provokes Huston is after the Internet disrupted  the Public
Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), it is now in danger of being disrupted
itself. The rise consolidation of ubiquitous major Content Delivery Network
nodes connected via private networks, is 1) belaying the need for, and thus
investment in, global Open Internet infrastructure, and also 2) removing
all options for public oversight of these networks. His closely argued
views are well summarized by *Don Dambandaraska* in *this news story
<https://disruptive.asia/transit-dead-content-literally-rules/>*, and are
expounded on at length by Huston himself in a *Circle ID post
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170311_the_internet_gilded_age/>*, and
expressed succinctly in the video interview below.

*View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/447HL2ePPBU


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