[adrian_b]

The Internet as it is now is structured to maximize the profits of the Internet service providers.

This results in a structure very different from what was conceived originally for the purpose of being resilient to partial destruction.

For the latter purpose, the best structure is a decentralized mesh with mostly equivalent links, which is much less economical than what the Internet uses now, i.e. a hierarchy of links of increasing throughputs that concentrates the traffic into few very high-speed links that pass through central high-capacity routers, so that the parts of the network where most of the traffic is concentrated are very vulnerable and their destruction would affect everybody.