I have only a surface knowledge of this, so please flag any nonsense in this post ..
Here's Derek Slater on YouTube talking about this issue ... http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread460257/pg1 ... he's not a nut ... he's like from Harvard Law and is a policy/ analyst for Google. I think what "Homes with Tails" suggests (individuals own the connection to some local hub that passes on ISP connections) is technically feasible. But it seems to me there may be some serious legal implications. The way I understand it is that you purchase your Internet connection from this third party company that passes it on to you. You can then easily change your ISP. And this third party company (Sweden has a model similar to this I hear) can then even add value. One of the concerns that pops up sometimes (I have no idea how serious this is) is that in the future ISPs may not provide wide-open Internet access but provide only a selected number of sites (or site categories) and you choose a level of access (much the same as choosing a cable-TV plan). Also, ISPs may actually charge a site provider to have his/her site listed in a particular category. Is this a nonsense fear or a realistic possibility? This aspect is not brought up in Slater's video. Then, if you have the "Home with Tails" solution, this third party can then choose not to restrict Internet access. That's the added value. But then if they do that, then the ISP charging for a listing does not make any sense and that would certainly annoy them. So I read about this but don't have enough background to evaluate this information. So that's why this post. And then why haven't these third- party companies sprung up in the US. Seems to me that if it were a practical business opportunity, someone would be doing it. Such a model doesn't seem technically impractical, so if there is a hindrance, could it be some legal thing? -ted On May 9, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Kubaska <[email protected]> writes: > > Ted> Has anyone had any dealing with "Freedom to Connect"? > Ted> http://freedom-to-connect.net/ > > Yes, I went to it this year, back at the end of March. > > Ted> Specifically the "Homes with Tails" paper by Derek Slater ... and > Ted> the "glass roots" movement. > > Ted> Seems like good stuff but looking for some qualitative > Ted> comments. Thanks. > > I haven't actually read that paper, but I saw it, know generally what > it suggests, and I saw Derek Slater speak at F2C this year. > > > -- > Russell Senior, Secretary > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
