The Pouzin Society is a new group being created to rethink the notion of a global online network; “the Internet.” The early material suggests that the body is already thinking of concepts that seem to elevate the Internet from a transport/connection network to a host for complex inter-process communication that sounds more like cloud computing, or an underlying framework for it at least.
This is a topic that’s going to generate a lot of discussion and interest, but remember that we still haven’t even been able to transition to IPv6 from IPv4 after more than a decade of work.