Recently published by the RFC Editor: Mark Nottingham's RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards, an Independent Submission-stream essay (not subject to the full IETF process) which does a good job of making many of the key points about centralization of Internet services, its avoidance, and the pitfalls of both, especially focusing on the social factors that render technical efforts alone insufficient. I feel that it summarizes a large part of the debate effectively...
