[Din] get discussion going on a new internet draft: On the Effects of Internet Consolidation

[Lixia Zhang <[e-mail]>]

In case some people missed it: the following is a DIN-related new internet draft posted recently, which collected a number of important issues and summarized them in multiple sections including:
- implications of architecture consolidations
- intermediaries and consolidations, and
- protocol designs and consolidations.

Quoting the above section titles is a hope to attract people's attention to take a look:)
So we can think through the issues and (hopefully) get the discussion going on mailing list, making ourselves better prepared for the DINRG meeting.

Taking off my co-chair hat, I'm very interested in doing a brief presentation at the meeting on the "end-to-end principle" topic to start a discussion (my personal view is that this principle remains essential, just that the deployed Internet itself has changed in some fundamental ways, therefore its specifics needs to evolve as well -- would be easier to explain in person)
Whoever holding different opinions, please offer your counter arguments, or at least get them ready ready for the meeting:)

Lixia

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.

  Title           : On the Effects of Internet Consolidation
  Authors         : Dominique Lazanski
                    Mark McFadden
  Filename        : draft-mcfadden-cnsldtn-effects-00.txt
  Pages           : 19
  Date            : 2023-03-10

Abstract:
This document contributes to the continuing discussion on Internet consolidation. Over the last several years there have been many types of discussions around consolidation at a technical level, an economic or market level and also at an engineering level. This document aims to discuss recent areas of Internet consolidation and provide some suggestions for advancing the discussion.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcfadden-cnsldtn-effects/

There is also an htmlized version available at:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mcfadden-cnsldtn-effects-00