[Web4lib] "The end of the Internet", and the telecoms may bring it

[Kevil, L H.]

Isn't the real issue any involvement of the feds, rather than the
specifics of neutrality? I don't consider the Nation authoritative in
any sense, but I will share their shudder at the prospect of Congress
starting to control something that is not broken and none of their
damned business anyway.

Could someone more knowledgeable than I correct my memory that an
organization's server gaining access to the net is conditioned on its
agreement that it will pass through all packets free of charge? If this
is the case, it should answer the question posed by the head of AT&T
about why people can use his piping free of charge. And what about
Internet2 - is that safe for the moment?

Hunter

L. Hunter Kevil
Collection Development Librarian 
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65201
573-884-8760
kevill at missouri.edu

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Broun, Kevin
(NIH/NCI) [E]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:37 PM
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Subject: RE: [Web4lib] "The end of the Internet", and the telecoms may
bring it

No, it certainly seems like a real issue.

Check out this article from today's Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR200602
0601624.html

and a bunch more that come up by searching variations on "net
neutrality" e.g.:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=net+neutrality

- Kevin

Kevin Broun
Senior Web Developer / NCI LION Team Lead Office of Communications
National Cancer Institute kbroun at nih.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice York [mailto:maurice.york at emory.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:22 PM
To: Web4Lib
Subject: [Web4lib] "The end of the Internet", and the telecoms may bring
it

After reading this article, I'm somewhat speechless. I don't even know
how to summarize it efficiently. You just have to read it, I suppose.
There's
been so much talk that Google or some variant conglomeration (Googlezon
anyone?) would take over the world and control everything we do, and
here the telecoms have been quietly conspiring to actually legislate
that and so much more for themselves. And this is coming from The
Nation, so I can't just explode it as hyperbole or overblown
myth....perhaps someone else can <*looks around hopefully*>?
*
'The End of the Internet?'*
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

-Maurice

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Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
mcyork at emory.edu
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