By Art Reisman, CTO, http://www.netequalizer.com
Art Reisman
There continues to be a flurry of Net Neutrality articles published and according to one, Barack Obama is a big supporter of Net Neutrality. Of course that was a fleeting campaign soundbite that the media picked up without much context.
I was releived to see that finally a politically entity put a definition on Net Neutrality.
From the government of Norway we get:
“The new rules lay out three guidelines. First, Internet users must be given complete and accurate information about the service they are buying, including capacity and quality. Second, users are allowed to send and receive content of their choice, use services and applications of their choice. and connect any hardware and software that doesn’t harm the network. Finally, the connection cannot be discriminated against based on application, service, content, sender, or receiver.”
Full Article: Norway gets net neutrality—voluntary, but broadly supported
I could not agree more. Note that this definition does not rule out some form a fair bandwidth shaping, and that is an important distinction because the Internet will be reduced to gridlock without some traffic control.
The funniest piece of irony in this whole debate is that the larger service providers are warning of Armageddon without some form of fairness rules, (and I happen to agree) , while at the same time their marketing arm is creating an image of infinite unfettered access for $29 a month. (I omitted a reference link because they change daily)
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Net Neutrality Defined,Barack Obama is on the bandwagon
February 27, 2009 — netequalizerBy Art Reisman, CTO, http://www.netequalizer.com
Art Reisman
There continues to be a flurry of Net Neutrality articles published and according to one, Barack Obama is a big supporter of Net Neutrality. Of course that was a fleeting campaign soundbite that the media picked up without much context.
I was releived to see that finally a politically entity put a definition on Net Neutrality.
From the government of Norway we get:
“The new rules lay out three guidelines. First, Internet users must be given complete and accurate information about the service they are buying, including capacity and quality. Second, users are allowed to send and receive content of their choice, use services and applications of their choice. and connect any hardware and software that doesn’t harm the network. Finally, the connection cannot be discriminated against based on application, service, content, sender, or receiver.”
Full Article: Norway gets net neutrality—voluntary, but broadly supported
I could not agree more. Note that this definition does not rule out some form a fair bandwidth shaping, and that is an important distinction because the Internet will be reduced to gridlock without some traffic control.
The funniest piece of irony in this whole debate is that the larger service providers are warning of Armageddon without some form of fairness rules, (and I happen to agree) , while at the same time their marketing arm is creating an image of infinite unfettered access for $29 a month. (I omitted a reference link because they change daily)
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