On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 08:32 -0800, Jim Devine wrote: > from SLATE: > >The [Wall Street JOURNAL] fronts word that Google has approached > major Internet service providers with a proposal to give faster access > to the company's content on the Web. This is merely the latest example > of the way the issue known as network neutrality is losing some of its > biggest backers. Only two years ago, some of the biggest companies in > the industry, including Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google, seemed > determined to protect network neutrality. But now, these companies, > along with some prominent Internet scholars, have switched tracks and > are working on deals that would provide faster access to their Web > sites. President-elect Barack Obama spoke up about defending network > neutrality during the campaign, but some of his technology advisers > are among those who have changed their view on the issue.<
techdirt.com has really good analysis on many things including this one: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081214/1858183112.shtml << [...] However, as the Wall Street Journal is noting, it seems like many of those big internet companies that were strong supporters of net neutrality are now moving away from that position, and some may be going in completely the opposite direction. In fact, the article highlights (without any named sources... so...) that Google has been busy negotiating preferential traffic deals with various internet providers, such that it would get to place its own servers on their premises to give users a faster route to Google's servers. Google's only comment was to deny that this would violate net neutrality concepts, though some might disagree. On the whole, I'd have to agree that this doesn't appear to violate network neutrality rules, as it's more like Google setting up its own private Akamai-like CDN, and, as we've explained before, a CDN does not violate neutrality. [...] >> For a bit of fun in this time of crisis: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081215/0041293115.shtml Wedding Crashers In Spain Actually The Copyright Cops from the did-you-pay-for-that-performance-of-YMCA? dept Laurent _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
