Posting 'useful' (your definition) older emails like this I think is good.
4. The non-profit, open-source, volunteer internet providing services or products at no cost or for donations.
5. The closed sub-internets, mil-gov classified, SCADA, restricted and special purpose networks used by operators and administrators of backbones, nodes, satellite, cable, wired and wireless systems,
Second, the unknown internets, with or without evident access logging:
6. The covert policing and spying internet which watches, logs, mucks around, runs stings, causes accidents and shut-downs, cuts cables, runs surprise tests and attacks, and keeps alive the demand for covert oversight of all the known others.
7. The covert internets which hide among all the others, or try to subject to discovery by 6.
8. The evanescent internets which are set up, used and disappear quickly, openly or covertly, subject to 6.
9. The wayward and waylaid internets which cannot be identified: rogues, experiments, mistakes, erratic systems, unexpected glitches and consequences, acts of nature, forgotten protocols, inept code, destructive code, lost access techniques, death of the perpetrators.
10. Internets of combinations, hybrids, deceptions, ploys and warfare among 1-9.
We need a good name for the internet with these attributes: - not so ad-hoc - physical layer - localised/ immediate neighbourhood area mini-nets - eventually (if useful) a meta network connecting these Since in general we don't own our internet tubes, the mostly profit-motivated companies that do have ongoing economic incentive to centralize, control, be taken over by larger fish. We need to grok a counter-principle, such that we can over the longer term reverse this trend. This requires perhaps some perceivable benefit(s) to the local neighbours and their phy nodes, to warrant the hour or so required to connect to each other. So where could such features/ benefits arise?: - some new dynamic of torrents? - local/ community "library" concept? - privacy? - anonymity?