Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Even more on Mike Powell at Silicon Flatirons
Paul Kapustka has a networkingpipeline.com interview with Powell and more blogging about his Silicon Flatirons talk here and here. Susan Crawford, learning from the Bellheads and other old-school regulators at the Silicon Flatirons conference, lists seven arguments in favor of a content-discriminatory Internet.
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Semantics matters.
The "Internet" is a network of agreements to exchange packets based on payment or peering.
The core of the network is non-discriminatory, and is likely to stay that way. It's too easy to find alternative routes for anyone in the middle to have market power. It's a by-product of geometry and topology.
Those at the edge aren't top-table members of the Internet. I don't get access to BGP. (You might consider this a feature or bug in IPv4 depending on your outlook.) So we're really talking about a "content-discriminatory access", which a whole lot smaller fish to fry. An anti-social pitbull dog still isn't a wolf.
What is the opposing case against each one of those "Bellhead" arguments?
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The "Internet" is a network of agreements to exchange packets based on payment or peering.
The core of the network is non-discriminatory, and is likely to stay that way. It's too easy to find alternative routes for anyone in the middle to have market power. It's a by-product of geometry and topology.
Those at the edge aren't top-table members of the Internet. I don't get access to BGP. (You might consider this a feature or bug in IPv4 depending on your outlook.) So we're really talking about a "content-discriminatory access", which a whole lot smaller fish to fry. An anti-social pitbull dog still isn't a wolf.
What is the opposing case against each one of those "Bellhead" arguments?
