[colechristensen]

The thing is, obviously, that the Internet isn't broken, it has incredible utility and reliability. If it was designed and operated to be perfect, then it would likely be massively broken quite often. It is the tolerance for mild brokenness that has contributed significantly to its robustness and utility.

That isn't an argument for not improving things though, just a warning against perfection, if you chase it then you're liable to make really big mistakes that ruin everything.

[kombookcha]

Retaining functionality even in the face of mild-to-moderate borkedness is sorta the inciting goal for even making it in the first place, way back in the cold war days. Building on top of "How do we make a communications network that can handle a bunch of nukes" sets you up for a very resilient baseline :)