The Internet Society is an American nonprofit organization that provides leadership in Internet standards, education, access, and policy. Salam Yamout is the regional director for the Middle East organization and told TechRadar Middle East that the Internet has grown from five networks to more than 64,000 independently managed networks in less than 25 years. "The Internet(a) has faced many challenges in the past and has been able to meet them by being continuously improved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that occurs every year," he said. she stated. The IETF is an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers interested in the evolution of the architecture and well-functioning of the Internet.
The IoT does not change the infrastructure of the internet.
The number of IoT devices is expected to increase from 7 billion in 2018 to 22 billion in 2025. "So far, we have been able to cope with it. The only difference with IoT is the last mile or the connection between the device and the door Internet gateway. This is another protocol, but once they have access to the Internet, the traffic is the same and nothing is different for IoT devices," Yamout said. The only problem, he said, was the number of IP addresses for IoT devices, but the problem was resolved after upgrading to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). "About 25% of all Internet traffic is IPv6. All the networks in the Arab region are relatively new and they have no problem switching to IPv6. But unless they all go to IPv6, network operators have to handle as much IPv4 like IPv6," he said.
Less regulation, more innovation.
Despite repeated calls by countries and governments to regulate the Internet, he said regulation could have unintended consequences and would not succeed because the Internet is based on voluntary agreements between networks. "A regulatory race can lead to the wrong incentives and a breakdown in the Internet. The Internet must be open and many World Bank reports show that the economic and social benefits of the Internet can only be realized if everyone has access to it," Yamout said. The 64,000 networks that make up the Internet today will be subject to different levels of regulation, and sometimes "we find that networks in less regulated countries innovate more or make more money on the Internet." We will not see a settlement affecting the 64.000 networks. "
The Big Four have changed the way the Internet works.
When asked how small businesses could survive when the Big Five tech companies (Alibaba, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google) dominated the internet economy, he said that The significant and growing influence of a handful of key internet players in the Internet economy was not "harmful." “They (the big four or five companies) have changed the way the Internet works because they now have proprietary networks to survive in some parts of the planet. Internet, such as infrastructure concentration, eyeball concentration and application concentration. So far, she said, "We don't have a clear answer. Sometimes economies of scale are helpful because they will make it cheaper and more available. Sometimes we are concerned about the end-to-end principle of the Internet. We don't want startups to cannibalize the internet.” At present, he said there was no international framework for taxing the big four companies. However, he claimed that the major telecom operators had a bargaining agreement with these companies.