"They are, in my view, a codification of a set of fundamental principles around openness. A central question is, given we have done this well and gone this far, why do we need them now? I have a few answers to this, but mostly it’s because along with our technology advances in delivering networking and network services, we’ve also improved the ability to unilaterally, and thus dangerously, control it." - Panagiotis Astithas