It has been two whole weeks since the FCC issued its Internet openness rules, and with holiday celebrations out of the way there has been some time for the details to start to sink in. Some observers seem to be perpetuating a high-level debate about whether the FCC went too far or not far enough, [...]
Categories: DPI, Net Neutrality
The last decade’s worth of US policy work on broadband Internet openness – first open access, now net neutrality – has focused largely on the access links operated by individual residential ISPs. But the recent dispute between Level 3 and Comcast has served as a jolting reminder that the Internet is a network of networks [...]
Categories: Net Neutrality
Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Without knowing all of the commercial details, it’s hard to know what to make of Level 3’s recent claim that Comcast is threatening the openness of the Internet by requiring Level 3 to pay Comcast a fee to deliver Level 3 traffic [...]
Categories: Net Neutrality
Note: This blog post was originally published on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 75th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), one of the leading international technical standards bodies for the Internet. For many years, CDT has sought to engage in technical standards [...]
Categories: Standards