Some 28,000 public comments have already been posted to the FCC on the Comcast petition, and Save The Internet! is urging members to file more.
This is taking on the character of a DOS attack, as most of the comments are junk. Telling the FCC that you love the Internet is nice, but’s not exactly [...]
I have to congratulate Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton for the courageous stand he’s taken against Scientology. Nick is standing tall and refusing to take down the video of a rambling and incoherent Tom Cruise doing $cieno-babble, while the rest of the Internet has been cowed by threats. The Scientology empire will sue, so their [...]
Here’s my slide deck from the Net Neutrality 2008 Symposium at the U. of San Francisco Law School this weekend.
The section on network-based solutions to piracy seems to be particularly engaging. Nick Weaver has been working out a similar solution. I felt compelled to sketch this out because of the breathless reaction from some of [...]
One piece of required reading on Internet Architecture is the literature on End-to-End arguments. The canonical paper was End-to-End Arguments in System Design by Salzer, Reed, and Clark, which was substantially clarified by Clark’s follow-up, Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world. Tim Moors offered a [...]
A generally gushy article on the EFF and Comcast appears today in The Frisco Weekly, making one telling point:
A 2007 study by professors at Clemson University offered solid proof that as few as 15 BitTorrent users on a Comcast-like network could degrade downloads and uploads for everyone else, making streaming videos stutter, or causing other [...]
My latest salvo in the ongoing debate with the EFF over Comcast is up at the Register today, Hogging the Trough: The EFF Strikes Back
BitTorrent’s behavior on the Comcast network is like a glutton at an all-you-can-eat buffet who insists on planting himself at the trough, preventing others from getting to the food. This causes [...]
Check this article from The Register on the cost of Internet video:
Users want it, but today, the business models give operators the incentive to throttle, rather than encourage, high-bandwidth uses of the internet. MIT calls this the ‘Broadband Incentive Problem’.
Last July, my company IP Development published research into the cost of 1080p HDTV [PDF, 128k] [...]
Writing on the AT&T discussion of pirated material, Professor Tim Wu professes amazement:
No one knows exactly what AT&T is proposing to build. But if the company means what it says, we’re looking at the beginnings of a private police state. That may sound like hyperbole, but what else do you call a system designed to [...]
I’ll be speaking at the Toll Roads Symposium on the legal and political debate over network neutrality in Frisco on the 26th. My panel is:
Panel 3: Social Control: Issues of Privacy & Autonomy
• Scott Cleland, Founder of Precursor LLC and NetCompetition.org
• Kevin Bankston, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• [...]
I need to find some time to respond to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s defense of packet-drop in some detail, but for now it’s sufficient to note that they refuse to admit that Layer Two networks have traffic problems.
The last Register piece has some people at the Net Neutrality Squad excited, most notably Bob Frankston, who [...]
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