Without specification,
software is incomplete.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
— Fred Brooks

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Problem Statement & Gap Analysis for Human-Centric Networking
Attention: this draft is currently a verbatim copy of draft-jfinkhaeuser- interpeer; it should serve as a basis for discussion and future evolution of this topic. This document describes a novel, human centric networking architecture designed to better meet issues arising on the current Internet. The architecture is derived from an examination of existing architectures and their disadvantages in meeting the above issues.
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