As the Internet continues to grow, it may be in everyone’s best interest to organize how its various parts connect to each other, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. A group of researchers have developed a system that structures the Internet’s nodes by coordinates, and allows each node to send information through a short hyperbolic path by knowing only which of its neighboring nodes will get the information closer to its destination. While the theoretical implementation works almost perfectly, the geographical realities of the Internet’s arrangement suggest that efficient, scalable arrangements like this one may never come to pass.

The Internet, such as it is, is a series of autonomous systems (AS, not tubes). An individual AS can be viewed as any part of the Internet owned and maintained by a single entity, and can range in size from a single person to AT&T. Connections between autonomous systems are what allow information on the Internet to get around, and a few groups of researchers are beginning to see the disjointed business arrangements between autonomous systems as a potential problem.

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Plan to organize the Internet turns out to be a pipe dream