Shortly after my last post on this topic, I spent some time reading the
notices on the bulletin board outside the market in our little mountain
town.
One of them asked if people in remote mountain areas are tired of slow
dial-up Internet speeds. The county has set up a Line Extension Fund to
I dont see much of it referenced in the current debate. At least no
rational economic statements as opposed to noisy activists with a distaste
for big telecom.
Let me read through those papers before I comment further. Thanks for
pointing me to them
On 15 March 2014 11:20:52 am Pranesh
I'm addressing some of the links Suresh forwarded to the list.
Bennett:
If we’ve learned anything at all about from the history of
Internet-as-utility, it’s that this strained analogy only applies in
cases where there is no existing infrastructure, and probably ends
best when a
Having, in India, started off with an internet which was exclusively a
government monopoly and only turned over to private enterprise some years down
the line, I would say that making it a utility is something that most people
here, given the local conditions, would resent,
Innovations were
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Having, in India, started off with an internet which was exclusively a
government monopoly and only turned over to private enterprise some
years down the line, I would say that making it a utility is something
that most people here, given the local conditions,
Municipal wifi has a long and checkered history .. And city governments aren't
the best funded organizations on the planet is the trouble.
Bell labs innovation was pre internet but then Unix did originate there. The
internet isn't all networks. (And by the way see
That is probably the most, to use the same language, bs point of them all.
Mostly parroted by a school of net neutrality people (Susan Crawford, Tim Wu
etc) that really should know better, but that doesn't quite stop them.
Come to think of it, they too like to use overblown and soundbite laden
This one too http://bennett.com/blog/2008/11/just-another-utility/
--srs (iPad)
On 05-Mar-2014, at 8:55, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
That is probably the most, to use the same language, bs point of them all.
Mostly parroted by a school of net neutrality people (Susan
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I pretty much totally agree.
The triumverate of Internet rules we need are:
* Net Neutrality (either by forcing line-sharing like in the UK, or
through direct regulation of carriers on the basis that they receive a
massive public subsidy in the
Issues with reporting bugs is something that is a kind of side effect of the
DMCA - but the vuln report community has already split into trusted / vetted
groups where a lot more takes place than in public groups like full disclosure.
For that part I have no dispute with you at all. Neither
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