The Kleinrock controversy is interesting because it shows that most of the Internet's creators preferred--to use the metaphor of the Internet itself--a system of fully distributed credit. They instinctively isolated and routed around any node that tried to claim more significance than the others. The Internet was born of an ethos of creative collaboration and distributed decision making, and its founders liked to protect that heritage. It became ingrained in their personalities--and in the DNA of the Internet itself.