Dear Dr. peng:

I write you in regards to manuscript # CACM-08-11-0228 entitled "The Discovery and Analysis on the Law of Internet Evolution" which you submitted to the Communications of the ACM.

In view of the feedback from the reviewer(s) found at the bottom of this letter, your manuscript has been declined for publication in Communications of the ACM.

Thank you for considering the Communications of the ACM for the publication of your research. I hope the outcome of this specific submission will not discourage you from the submission of future manuscripts.

Sincerely,
Moshe Y. Vardi
Editor in Chief, Communications of the ACM
vardi@cs.rice.edu


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Comments to the Author:
The basic premise of this paper -- that the internet is evolving like the human brain evolved -- is based on some inevitable similarities between any network designed to connect human beings together and to devices humans use.

I see your theory as a mere metaphor without scientific substantiation. Furthermore, your claim that the evolution of the internet will follow that of the brain is far-fetched speculation. Among the fundamental differences are (a) the brain evolved over millions of years and (b) the brain evolved under natural selection in which many millions of individual designs were tried and abandoned. The internet is a single entity and is designed by humans. I just don't see any reason to extend this metaphor into a scientific theory.

By the way, the English is quite poor and it makes it difficult for the reader to understand many of your sentences. For example, in this key passage

"This is the law of internet evolution. Internet evolution results in: (1) sufficient connection of human brains into a network. (2) Forming an internet virtual brain highly similar to human brains."

statement (1) makes no sense. I do not know what you mean by it. I would urge you to sit down with an English-speaker and work through the paper line by line. I also believe that you should discuss your theories (and the next version of the paper) with evolutionary biologists and perhaps submit it to a journal or conference exploring evolutionary programming so that appropriate expertise is available for review.