<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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. <a href="https://youtu.be/Je36zEtQSvk?t=2811">https://youtu.be/Je36zEtQSvk?t=2811</a> Unfortunately I did not get much of a response.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198subscription-body-tag"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none"> 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" </span><table class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198subscribe-body" style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198subscribe-wrapper" style="width:100%;background-color:#ffffff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198subscribe-header-wrap" style="width: 100%; background-image: ; background-color: #43a4d0; height: 8px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198the-post" valign="top"><div class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">At the recent <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://2017.apricot.net/">APRICOT Conference</a></strong> in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, <strong>Geoff Huston</strong>, Chief Scientist at APNIC, gave a rather dystopian view of the Internet's future, referring to the current period as a "<strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age">gilded age</a></strong>" - 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 <strong>Don Dambandaraska</strong> in <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://disruptive.asia/transit-dead-content-literally-rules/">this news story</a></strong>, and are expounded on at length by Huston himself in a <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170311_the_internet_gilded_age/">Circle ID post</a></strong>, and expressed succinctly in the video interview below.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://youtu.be/447HL2ePPBU">https://youtu.be/447HL2ePPBU</a></p></div><p class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198subscribe-action-links" style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:14px;color:#666666;padding:1em 0px 0em;width:auto"> </p><table class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198auto-width" style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0px;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9067#respond">Comment</a></td><td>   <a class="gmail-m_-8956896228422798198subscribe-action-link" style="color:#2585b2;text-decoration:underline" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9067#comments">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody><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