[Din] next steps for DINRG

[Dirk Kutscher <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

in Dublin, we are planning to continue our discussion on next steps for DINRG.

To that end, we are soliciting suggestions, interests indications, and questions here. If you have a suggestion, please feel free to share it here or by personal e-mail.

We will collect everything and then prepare a summary before the meeting.

As a bit of background:

As chartered, DINRG has different objectives:

* Investigation of the root causes of Internet centralization, and articulation of the impacts of the market economy, architecture and protocol designs, as well as government regulations;

* Measurement of the Internet centralization and the consequential societal impacts;

* Characterization and assessment of observed Internet centralization;

* Development of a common terminology and understanding of (de-)centralization;

* Interaction with the broader research community to explore new research topics and technical solutions for decentralized system and application development;

* Documentation of the outcome from the above efforts via different means (e.g., research papers and RFCs) as inputs to the broader conversation around centralization; and

* Facilitation of discussions between researchers, organizations and individuals involved in Internet standards and regulations.


Let us know, which of these objectives should be emphasized in your view, and whether you have specific interests within these topics that should be discussed more.

Best regards,
Dirk and Lixia