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Report of 2021 DINRG Workshop on Centralization in the Internet

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The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Research Group on Decentralizing the Internet (DINRG) hosted a workshop on Centralization in the Internet on June 3, 2021. The workshop focused on painting a broad-brush landscape of the Internet centralization problem space: its starting point, its driving force, together with an articulation on what can and should be done.

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    cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review  Volume 53, Issue 2
    April 2023
    45 pages
    ISSN:0146-4833
    DOI:10.1145/3610381
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