So says a Study on the Internet’s Technical Success Factors commissioned by APNIC and LACNIC – the regional internet address registries for the Asia–Pacific and Latin America and Caribbean regions respectively – and written by consultancy Analysys Mason.
The document states that “a significant fraction of global IP traffic now consists of data that is moved between the datacentres and edge networks of large internet companies.” Those companies’ needs, and growing networks, lead the analysts to suggest that "over time, we could see the internet transform into a more centralised system with a few global private networks carrying most of the content and services.
Another risk is that when private networks break, many users suffer. Exhibit A: yesterday’s AWS brownout, which hurt Netflix and Disney+, among others.
Yet, if you look at nearly all the alternative social networks springing up, you’ll see decentralisation, openness, interoperability, chronological feeds, no Big Tech…
See https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/09/study_on_the_internets_technical_success_factors/
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If BigTech will continue to centralize and ignore the basic concepts that made the internet possible their internet will be down way more often. They are actually shooting themselves in their foots in slow motion :D The issue I have is that our daily lives depend more and more on this corporate networks. A responsible state would not put all their eggs in that basket and stick with the “old” internet.