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How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised

A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway.

For a while now, it’s been apparent that Internet and Web standards have stagnated at the ‘top’ of the stack. While the IETF has been busy revising HTTP and replacing TCP down below, a tremendous amount of innovation is going on up top, and it’s all in private hands. This is where most of the apparent value in the Internet now resides: when you ask people what is the Internet? they don’t say anything about end-to-end, reliable delivery, stateful resources, or the browser platform; they say ‘social networking, search and shopping’, or more likely, ‘Facebook, Google and Amazon.’

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So much of this is likely to go so wrong, but if it went well it would be amazing, I just can’t see a path to it actually going well though… >.>

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