Doc Searls, founder of Project VRM at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, wrote in a study by Elon University: “We need to to understand the Internet as what it really is: a way to connect anyone and anything to anybody and anything else, with little if any regard for the means between the ends.”

Nobody owns protocols that control operations of the Internet, Searls said.

“Everybody can use them,” he said, “and anybody can improve them.”

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