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 based on a verbatim copy of draft-jfinkhaeuser- interpeer; it serves as a basis for discussion and future evolution of this topic. This documents describes issues with the current Internet's design with regards to human centric use cases. It examines existing network architecutres and their respective disadvantages in meeting the requirements of those use cases. The document is intended to serve as a problem statement for a novel, human centric networking architecture designed to better serve human needs.
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