[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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