Is this relevant to your discussion.  From WONKBLOG

 

BLEVINS: Calm down. The courts didn't just end the open Internet. "The
reports of network neutrality's death have been greatly exaggerated. Yes,
the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the heart of the FCC's open
Internet rules. But it also, more quietly, ruled that the FCC has authority
to regulate broadband providers to protect Internet openness. In doing so,
the court may have handed the FCC -- and the public -- a victory that goes
well beyond network neutrality...The court vacated only these particular
rules, not the FCC's ability to act in the future. Specifically, it
concluded that the FCC could regulate Internet providers under a statute
known as Section 706, which authorizes the FCC to take various steps to
promote broadband deployment." John Blevins in The Washington Post
<http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/1BAF0O/2OO93H/TLS4VW/IYE67NL/WT2BEA/
QR/h> .

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert J.
Cordingley
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:55 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Net neutrality?

 

I don't know.  Suppose AT&T, Verizon etc get into the travel business*.  How
easy do you suppose it would be to access Expedia*?  The current issue
appears to be about whether the FCC has jurisdiction over setting the rules
for net neutrality.  Let's hope they get/claim it back so that big media
moguls don't get to control every message via business arrangements with the
carriers.  Perhaps net neutrality is actually a Free Speech issue that's way
bigger than some yellow lines round some clinics entrances.

Robert
* or your business.

On 1/15/14 9:52 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

The real issue is not neutrality but QoS -- Quality of Service.  I *want* my
heart surgeon to have higher bandwidth and lower latency than my
TiVo/NetFlix.  QoS, both bandwidth and latency, needs to be properly doled
out between the services that actually need it.

 

   -- Owen 

 

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

 
http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/what-know-about-net-neutrality-ruling?
src=SOC
<http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/what-know-about-net-neutrality-ruling
?src=SOC&dom=fb> &dom=fb 


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