[CAnet - news] Excellent comments by David P Reed on Network Neutrality

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[At the recent FCC hearings in Boston David Reed, a professor at MIT gave a
very compelling argument in regard to Comcast's efforts to throttle
BitTorrent in terms of efforts at reasonable traffic management. My personal
interpretation on David's comments is that cablecos and telcos have entered
into a contract with users to provide access to the "Internet". The Internet
is not a product or service developed by exclusively by the cablecos or
telcos for use and enjoyment by their customers, as for example traditional
cell phone service. Since the Internet is a global service with its own set
of engineering principles, guidelines and procedures, implicit in providing
access to the Internet is, in essence, an unwritten contract to adhere to
those recognized standards such as the end2end principle. No one questions
the need for traffic management, spam control and other such services, but
they should be done in way that is consistent within open and transparent
engineering practices that are part and parcel of the contract with the user
in providing access to the global Internet. -- BSA]


http://www.reed.com/dpr/docs/Papers/Reed%20FCC%20statement.pdf


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