# How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised

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**Created:** [26 June 2021 14:29 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/how-the-next-layer-of-the-internet-is-going-to-be-standardised/10864 "2021-06-26T14:29:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/communitynews/32/1113_2.png) [@CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/CommunityNews)\
**Post date:** [26 June 2021 14:29 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/how-the-next-layer-of-the-internet-is-going-to-be-standardised/10864/1 "2021-06-26T14:29:22Z")

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> A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway.
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> For a while now, it’s been apparent that Internet and Web standards have stagnated at the ‘top’ of the stack. While the IETF has been busy [revising HTTP](https://httpwg.org/http2-spec/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2bis.html) and [replacing TCP](https://quicwg.org/) down below, a tremendous amount of innovation is going on up top, and it’s all in private hands. This is where most of the apparent value in the Internet now resides: when you ask people _what is the Internet?_ they don’t say anything about end-to-end, reliable delivery, stateful resources, or the browser platform; they say ‘social networking, search and shopping’, or more likely, ‘Facebook, Google and Amazon.’

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> **[How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised](https://www.mnot.net/blog/2021/06/21/standards-competition-governance)**
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> A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway.

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**Author:** ![OvermindDL1](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/overminddl1/32/52_2.png) [@OvermindDL1](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/OvermindDL1)\
**Post date:** [28 June 2021 15:51 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/how-the-next-layer-of-the-internet-is-going-to-be-standardised/10864/3 "2021-06-28T15:51:43Z")

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So much of this is likely to go so wrong, but if it went well it would be amazing, I just can’t see a path to it actually going well though… \>.\>