more on NYCwireless Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Keith Dawson <kadawson () mac com>
Date: November 2, 2005 3:19:13 PM EST
To: dana () nycwireless net
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] NYCwireless Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge

Dana --

> Broadband Challenge: http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-index.php? 
> page=BroadbandChallange

The four principles of Network Neutrality listed at this URL are:

(1) consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content
    of their choice;

(2) consumers are entitled to run applications and services of their
    choice, subject to the needs of  law enforcement;

(3) consumers are entitled to connect their choice of legal devices
    that do not harm the network; and

(4) consumers are entitled to competition among network providers,
    application and service providers, and content providers.

You will not get a single one of the major broadband providers to
sign up for this list. To the best of my knowledge, no major cable
or DSL provider allows point (2); all expressly forbid end users
(or "consumers" as they consider us) to run any kind of server. The
only DSL provider I have heard of who explicitly allows customers
to run servers, without buying a $200/mo. "business" access package,
is Speakeasy.com. I hope they are among the first to publicly sign
your principles. (Of course, all non-ILEC DSL suppliers such as
Speakeasy are under a death sentence, after the FCC's recent ruling
rolling back the DSL competition that was kicked off in the 1996
telecom reform act.)

-- Keith Dawson

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