Obama versus Confederate telecom Policy
February 6, 2008 Uncategorized 1 CommentBy Dalwhinnie
A propos yesterday’s entry about Confrederate telecom policy, Senator Obama has pledged himself to network neutrality. My definition of network neutrality consists of the ability of an Internet user a) to reach all end points on the Internet and b) at a price which bears no regard to the economic value supposed to exist in the transaction so enabled (you do not pay more to reach Google or Amazon than you do to reach Barrelstrength).
People keep trying to say this issue is dead and buried. It is not.
See Andrew Odlyzko for some pertinent articles on this issue. Network neutrality is the current formulation of an age-old issue of how much can carriers discriminate among traffic by uses and users. It goes back to ferries, canals and railroads. Having lasted so long, it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
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