> The New IP presentation paints a picture of a digital world in 2030 where virtual reality, holographic communication and remote surgery are ubiquitous — and for which our current network is unfit. Traditional IP protocol is described as “unstable” and “vastly insufficient”, with “lots of security, reliability and configuration problems”.
> The documents suggest a new network should instead have a “top-to-bottom design” and promote data-sharing schemes across governments “thereby serving AI, Big Data and all kinds of other applications”. Many experts fear that under New IP, internet service providers, usually state-owned, would have control and oversight of every device connected to the network and be able to monitor and gate individual access.
> [In countries that adopt the Chinese standard] everyone in those countries would need permission from their internet provider to do anything on the internet - whether downloading an app or accessing a site - and administrators could have the power to deny access on a whim. [State-owned ISPs would effectively give this power to the state].
And from: https://www.ft.com/content/c78be2cf-a1a1-40b1-8ab7-904d7095e...
> During its presentation at the ITU, Huawei also made it clear that New IP would have something described as a “shut up command”, where a central point in the network could effectively cut off communication to or from a particular address, according to a source who was present. He described this feature as a “fundamental departure” from the current network model which acts as an “agnostic postman that simply moves boxes around”.
