A unique and global network?
Locally deployed internet standards are a new reality – every network does not need to be attached to a global and unique internet, but many of the fundamental principles of networking upon which the global and unique internet still apply. In issues ranging from the secure management of IoT devices, to security concerns and content moderation there are clear benefits from specialised networks, where actors like ccTLDs are increasingly stepping up to act as trust anchors.
For most people around the world, people experience at least some aspects of the world wide web and the internet in a similar way regardless of where they are based. The same websites are accessible, with the same domain names mapping server addresses to human language, and the same content delivery networks and undersea cables connect everything into a big whole. Technically speaking, the conversion of an internet protocol (IP) address into a domain name or the reverse, the existence of digitalised transactions and access to large numbers of websites through a web browser all work the same even when the content differs.
This is, however, not a given. Internet technologies work the same whether lots of small networks are interconnected or whether they are operating independently of one another. Indeed, for many security critical operations in internet of things, manufacturing or government affairs, isolated networks have long been preferred.
The splitting of smaller networks from the larger network is not without political and economic controversy.
Read/ download (centr) PDF report attached
Locally deployed internet standards are a new reality – every network does not need to be attached to a global and unique internet, but many of the fundamental principles of networking upon which the global and unique internet still apply. In issues ranging from the secure management of IoT devices, to security concerns and content moderation there are clear benefits from specialised networks, where actors like ccTLDs are increasingly stepping up to act as trust anchors.
For most people around the world, people experience at least some aspects of the world wide web and the internet in a similar way regardless of where they are based. The same websites are accessible, with the same domain names mapping server addresses to human language, and the same content delivery networks and undersea cables connect everything into a big whole. Technically speaking, the conversion of an internet protocol (IP) address into a domain name or the reverse, the existence of digitalised transactions and access to large numbers of websites through a web browser all work the same even when the content differs.
This is, however, not a given. Internet technologies work the same whether lots of small networks are interconnected or whether they are operating independently of one another. Indeed, for many security critical operations in internet of things, manufacturing or government affairs, isolated networks have long been preferred.
The splitting of smaller networks from the larger network is not without political and economic controversy.
Read/ download (centr) PDF report attached
