What’s Wrong with the Internet and How We Can Fix It: John Day Interview

Day seems to be complaining that the networks aren't centralized enough with less-than perfectly hierarchical addresses (for efficiency of routing) and without lower level QoS levers. Neither of these things are good IMHO, but he certainly seems to think so.

> Engineers working on TCP decided that a 3-way exchange of messages (3-way handshake) could be used at the beginning of a connection. This is what is currently taught in all of the textbooks. However, in 1978 Richard Watson made a startling discovery: the message exchange was not what achieved the synchronization. It was explicitly bounding three timers. The messages are basically irrelevant to the problem.

This: https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien193.pdf

> I wish I had a dollar for every time someone has said (in effect), “gosh, you can’t replace the whole Internet.” There must be something in the water these days. They told us that we would never replace the phone company, but it didn’t stop us and we did.

Well, lets get started then.

Edit: Although, I still admire human ability to adapt to a familiar kludge. It would be fun to see how long we can survive with this broken internet.