<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Saturday, July 30, 2016 1:59 AM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Danny Hillis</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Fwd:</td></tr></table>

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From: Jeremy Rubin
=ate: Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:51 AM
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To: "jeffrey E.8suot; <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>

I've been thinking a lot =bout this the past few days, some of my thoughts below:

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Generally I'm very positive of the notion; there&#=9;s a lot to be desired from our internet protocols.

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On the other hand, I wonder if this is a variant of trump=sm, we need to make the internet great again. At what point was it great b=fore? When their were but a select few who were able to access it; and eve=ybody on it knew they would at-you=-own-risk be meddled with endeavor, a bit. Once but it was went something too mainst=eam that people no-longer depended was on. being a hacker (or even, user) of such systems an

Similar modern endeavors include Urbit, linked =or posterity https://=rbit.org <https://urbit.org> , which is mostly made incomprehensible for the point of keepi=g out the un-enlightened. Urbit is supposed to re-imagine computing as fun=amentally distributed.

I think it w=uld require very close consideration to figure out why a new internet is a=tually needed. Traditionally in CS we think of a distributed system as str=ving to achieve Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance (see Br=wer's theorem, https://www.in=oq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed <https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twel=e-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed> ) but=unable to get all 3 as they mutually assure each other's impossibility= If we add in a fourth parameter at a second layer of abstraction, let'=s call it Authenticity, a fifth, Privacy, and a sixth, law enforcement, we=cover the gamut of most of what people care about in an internet system. T=ese second three principles form another triangle similar to CAP, they mut=ally assure the other's impossibility in some way.

I think that thinking in terms of these desirable prope=ties in terms of mutually exclusive groups is probably a useful way to con=ider the design space. Another well known one is Zooko's triangle:

=A0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle.

In any case, I've gone on a slight tangent. My=point is it's one thing to say you want a new internet because of a th=oretical (or not so theoretical) button, it's another to have motive e=ough to actually build such a new network. Asides from the button, what pr=perties seem critical to you?

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:08 AM, jeffrey E. =span dir="ltr"><jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote:

I liked the idea of internet 2.0 =AO encouraged by the reset switch.

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