http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/10/1010grovepinnacor.html
Article discussing the degree to which the InterNet, as we have come to know it, is at risk from the garbage and malware currently flooding it. The potential for Net balkanization is considered very real [and this would simply be another example of a "Tragedy of the Commons"]. The concept of 'end-to-end' communication is ultimately at risk here.
A related viewpoint avaliable as a downloadable .PDF file, coming essentially to the same conclusion, is "The Beginning of the End of the Internet? Discrimination, Closed Networks, and the Future of Cyberspace", available from:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-239800A1.pdf
My, for some reason, the most recent set of posts have been gloomy and doomy!
Posted by jho at October 13, 2003 03:24 PM