Professor Noam's "Many Internets"
Almost 20 years ago, Noam wrote a seminal book, Interconnecting the Network of Networks. Until about 2010, everyone agreed the Net was a "network of networks," not a monolithic entity. There was a central authority, ICANN, keeping track of domain names, but that was a minor administrative function.
Since the Internet was never a single entity, talk about the harms of "splitting it" made no sense. Eli, who has run a telecommunications institute at Columbia for decades, suggested we might be better off accepting that some nations or groups might want to organize their networks differently.
Add a comment
Actually practical and not necessarily a problem.
Steve Mollenkopf's creative engineers produce many of the world's best chips. It's time for him to stop promoting a bogus claim "5G Expected to Create 22 Million Jobs, Produce Up to $12.3 Trillion of Goods and Services by 2035." They offer no evidence or logic that leads to that conclusion. They hired 
Moving the big decisions to where they have power. At the BRICS conference in Xiamen, the global South and China/Russia proclaimed, "All states should participate on an equal footing in the evolution and functioning of the Internet and its governance, bearing in mind the need to involve relevant stakeholders in their respective roles and responsibilities. The structures that manage and regulate the critical Internet resources need to be made more representative and inclusive."With the U.S. effectively blocking any