Decentralize the web is indeed what we have always been doing. Probably because we started
in the
times when the internet was still very decentralized and all communication was
peer-to-peer.
Lately, internet has been transformed into a client-server network much like the telephone
BBS world
was in those days: there are users, they connect to some server where all they want to
have can be
found and stored.
This is also a reason why IPv6 has not really taken off. The design principle behind
IPv6, to have enough
addresses to assign one to every device and have all of those devices communicate
peer-to-peer, has
largely been abandoned on the internet. There is no reason anymore to have a different
address for
every device.
In fact, now that we have the AMPRnet coming alive again here, many of the users are so
accustomed
to this way of working that they implement it on their ham network as well: everything
NATted behind a
single IP address. Even though they can just apply for a subnet large enough for their
shack.
Maybe we should invest in explaining the difference between our network and the internet
as it is used
today, and how this change on internet came about. It could help people think different.
Rob
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