Thursday, May 22, 2008
Computerworld covers my Wellington NZ speech
Computerworld.co.nz has just posted their story entitled,
"Telcos a threat to online security, claims author;
Network intelligence is the enemy in 'nightmare scenario'"
on my TUANZ talk in Wellington ten days ago. An excerpt:
"Telcos a threat to online security, claims author;
Network intelligence is the enemy in 'nightmare scenario'"
on my TUANZ talk in Wellington ten days ago. An excerpt:
Then there is the most plausible of nightmares — the one concerning traffic prioritisation. “In my nightmare, once the telephone company has some applications that generate more revenue, because they’re subject to ‘management’, and others that don’t the former get all the newest, fastest, shiniest network upgrades, while the latter languish on what soon becomes yesterday’s network.Snip . . . whole story here.
“Innovations that don’t yet have a revenue-stream are consigned to second-class service or subjected to other barriers that keep them off the network. In my nightmare, all but the most mundane innovation dies.”
Much of this supposed need for “management” will be based on the myth of bandwidth scarcity, Isenberg says.
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