Greenfield Vision of Autonomous Internet

Please add your ideas about autonomous internet here. "Greenfield" means that you are "wiping the slate clean" and trying to imagine a whole new system from the ground up. This is meant mostly as an exercise in imagining and visioning new alternatives. The practical reality is that most efforts will build on existing concepts and technologies. However, the goal of this page is to offer a space to think beyond those existing technologies.

A Whole-earth system

The Internet is a global network. It does not need to (and actually is hindered by) country borders and political divisions. It is simply infrastructure for the whole planet.

Thus, the domain system as a top-level navigation entity should disappear. Apart from the fact that it is not mandatory to be used (I can buy most domains in country top-level domains I am not living in), it simply is obsolete in a globalized environment.

Furthermore, the Internet then could be working as a single big system, instead of replicating functions and data silos across sites. Therefore, a service oriented architecture may be set up addressing the system as a whole, for example:

* Directory services for finding information, people, organizations, groups, etc.
* Accounting services for virtual/online currencies, etc.
* Profiling services, authentication services, security services (certificates, etc.)
* Rating services
* Tagging services
* many more

The Internet would run humanity as a single organization (like a 'multinational ' for all people); thus, bringing the collaborative / cooperative meme of our times to full fruition.--Fablife 14:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)