I was going to say the same thing, so I won't :-). That said, I was in the Sun Systems group when Bob Hinden ("Boss Bob" (there were three Bobs in the group) of the network group was proposing SIPP as the "next generation IP." It has been illustrative (but I don't think educational alas) to see how much more easily this protocol would have managed to be implemented and deployed.
That said, as Thomas points out (indirectly) in the parent to this comment, the Internet was deployed across a pre-existing network (the telephone switching network) without any co-operation from the people who defined or wrote or deployed the protocols the implement telephone switching. As long as the connection from point A to point B worked, the packets could figure out how to get from A to B. There is absolutely nothing preventing a suitably motivated group from creating their own elegant "network" that they layer on top of the existing broadband networks of today, without having to either consult, or get permission from, any standards organization.
> There is absolutely nothing preventing a suitably motivated group from creating their own elegant "network" that they layer on top of the existing broadband networks of today, without having to either consult, or get permission from, any standards organization.
That is essentially what most SD-WAN devices do- treat the Internet as an 'underlay' network- most of them are using proprietary code to create their own network infrastructure that isn't standards based.
It generally is standards based. Their customers demand it to be so. IPSec tunnel overlays, usually if not always full mesh. The non-standard part is tiny insignificant tweaks to IPSec that render it unacceptable to standards speaking endpoints, thus you can't coordinate with your open source IPSec device. Stupid myopia, because these systems depend on proprietary orchestration anyway.
+1 for velocloud. SDWAN mesh between all your devices, and they provide a cloud gateway that allows you to connect to any compatible ipsec device, without having to backhaul all the data to one specific endpoint.
That said, as Thomas points out (indirectly) in the parent to this comment, the Internet was deployed across a pre-existing network (the telephone switching network) without any co-operation from the people who defined or wrote or deployed the protocols the implement telephone switching. As long as the connection from point A to point B worked, the packets could figure out how to get from A to B. There is absolutely nothing preventing a suitably motivated group from creating their own elegant "network" that they layer on top of the existing broadband networks of today, without having to either consult, or get permission from, any standards organization.