it shouldn't be about reinventing the wheel, its about to understand how and why the wheel was build in the first place.

it shouldn't be repeating ideas, but to understand where the ideas came from to question what is the trade off and their side-effects.

it should be about ideas to get new ideas but, most of all, to disseminate ideas, to spread the meme, as some would say, to let them merge into new and unexpected forms.

internet science should watch closely the development of future internet especially by asking the question: how to implement. as this seems to be the hard part in respect to future internet: one shouldn't underestimate the fact that in the european ppp future internet project the phrase "pilot case" got already replaced by "test case". the question why seems reasonable.

as in history of economics scientists already accept the value of analyzing single biographies and companies coming about, questioning old and once favored theories, internet science should not leave out this path.