Internet Application Services Today: Problems and Concerns

• The wrong model: proprietary, owned and controlled

• • Ownership oriented to the Service Provider
  • Non-transparent software
  • User information owned and controlled by the proprietary Service Provider

• Structurally incoherent

• • Ad hoc: no overarching engineering design
  • Driven by short-term business expedience and profit
  • Functionally uncoordinated