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Interesting facts and ideas by Paul Mockapetris
When it comes to development „of almost any technology“, Paul Mockapetris says you cannot envision all the uses of it that might emerge years later. Therefore, you can also not foresee the needs that can arise much later of that new technology. Thus, it is easy to detect flaws in technology when a few years have passed. But it is impossible to build technology to match the needs of the future perfectly.

According to Paul Mockapetris, there is no net neutrality at this point This brings up the questions why there seems to be none and if should be realised. A reason speaking for net neutrality is to prevent ISPs and other intermediate parties to act as a gatekeeper to the Internet. Information on the Internet should be freely available to everybody. Especially, information should not be controlled by corporations. On the other hand, regulation of information flows on the Internet can be an achievable goal. This regulation should take place by governments e.g. in favor of removing children pornography on the Internet. The amount of interaction and regulation of governments on the access to the Internet is therefore a particularly interesting step into our future understanding of the Internet.

The last point by Paul Mockapetris is that functionality is always a step ahead of security. This is an interesting topic as especially the end-consumer is mostly interested in functionality. The average Joe still does not care a lot about security (or privacy) in an extent that he might should. Personally, I would wish the public would be more aware and interested in secure applications. The main problematic with this is, that security is hard to grasp, understand and prove, whereas features can often easily be understood and used by end-consumers.

So all in all, Paul Mockapetris provides three different and very general topics that will still be relevant for years to come. These are topics to bear in mind and work on in the near future to again reshape our understanding of the modern digital society.