Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Aled Morris wrote:

> Sadly we don't have many "killer applications" for symmetric residential
> bandwidth, but that's likely because we don't have the infrastructure to
> incubate these applications.

Come to think of it, if USENET software wasn't so cumbersome, I kind of 
wonder if today's "social network" would consist of home servers running 
NNTP - and I expect the traffic would be very symmetric. (For that 
matter, with a few tweaks, the USENET model would be great for 
"groupware" - anybody remember the Netscape communications server that 
added private newsgroups and authentication to the mix?)

Miles Fidelman



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