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 Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9067#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9067#comments> *​Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9067 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -