[GLLUG] Network Neutrality

Stanley C. Mortel mortel at cyber-nos.com
Tue Feb 26 19:56:25 EST 2008


I realize this is semi-OT, but the issue is clearly important and is a 
close cousin to FOSS.

http://www1.sans.edu/resources/leadershiplab/network_neutrality.php

It is well worth the read.  Some excerpts:

AT&T and Verizon Communications announced their desire in 2006 to create a 
tiered Internet system that would require big bandwidth hogs like Google or 
Yahoo to pay more for their access

The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining 
the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers.

Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet.

Vinton Cerf, a man who really did help invent the Internet, gave the 
following testimony, "Allowing broadband carriers to control what people 
see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have 
made the Internet such a success. For the foreseeable future most Americans 
will face little choice among broadband carriers. Enshrining a rule that 
permits carriers to discriminate in favor of certain kinds or sources of 
services would place those carriers in control of online activity."

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Stan Mortel
mortel at cyber-nos.com
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