Nuclear Networking
This past week I had the good fortune of going to Barcelona for a workshop on Recursive InternetWork Architecture (RINA), hosted by i2cat, produced by the Pouzin Society, and presenting work done…
GigaOm Review
Three posts on the GigaOm blog deserve your attention as each one highlights a central issue in network policy. Consider this summary and analysis. Blair Levin, the czar of America’s…
This Mobile Life, Baseball Edition
I’m a big baseball fan, more precisely a big Oakland A’s fan, so being out of town on for the last game of the regular season was a big challenge…
Van Schewick’s View of Net Neutrality and Quality of Service
Network Quality of Service (QoS) is the technical issues that lurks behind the policy issue of net neutrality. While there are many subtle variations of net neutrality, the concept as…
A ‘Competitive’ Alliance in Name Only
The language in the policy debate over the future of broadband ranges from the imprecise to the Orwellian. An “open” Internet, for example, means to some an uncensored one, to…
Five Ways the Internet is Not Open
“Keep the Internet Open” demands the chief Internet propagandist of Google in the New York Times last week. Earlier in the week I saw the same Vint Cerf open the…
Correcting a False Assertion About the Internet
The main reason for creating his blog was to correct false impressions and spin about technical subjects with policy implications. It’s common practice these days for folks with a policy…
Internet or Else, Peasants!
There was a bizarre column in the New York Times this week about net neutrality that managed to mangle the issue as severely as anyone has (Net Neutrality and Economic…
Recent Blog Posts of Interest
This is a reminder that I post my policy-related work at The Innovation Files, the blog of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Here are some recent IF posts A…
Senator Kohl, Competition, and Public Knowledge
Last week, I posted a note about forthcoming hearings under the auspices of the Senator Herb Kohl’s Anti-Trust Subcommittee regarding Verizon wireless’s new cross-marketing deal with a group of cable…