The primary virtue of this networking system is that any vendor who follows its guidelines can connect its equipment to anything else provided by any vendor on the Internet. It's not unusual for a Fortune 500 company to spend tens of thousands of dollars per user on proprietary networks. And these networks call for costly support them and have high direct costs to the firms that use them. Despite this, it's a continual task for these firms to make sure that all of the equipment they've spent richly for continues to work smoothly together. This is a Balkanized networking system.
Machines can exchange files.
Machines can control each other and request that work assigned to one machine actually be done by another. The Internet as you and I know it now, and as people have known it for the last 25 years, is going to be replaced by dozens, maybe hundreds of proprietary Internet clones. These various clones will be implemented in corporate networks. You incur specific legal obligations under the terms of my copyright and little else under my privacy policy .