WORTH READING DSLP AT&T CTO Wants Non-discrimination

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

From a requested anonymous friend:

"Never one to trust the second (third?) hand reports, I took a look at  
the video, available on the SuperComm website.  As is often the case,  
context matters.  This was a panel discussion of the CTOs of Verizon,  
Qwest, AT&T, Sprint etc. with a moderator asking questions.  After an  
hour or so of questions about growing demands on the network and what  
the CTOs were doing about it, the moderator said:  “I’m getting ready  
to change topics and climb out of the network and move up a little  
higher in the stack and talk a little more about applications . . .   
The industry in general is talking about software-oriented networks  
and the ability to combine Web 2.0, IMS, SOA . . . So, I’ll ask each  
of you to answer this very quickly – How does your company define what  
software-oriented network actually is?”  The response was a response  
to that question, not to anything about “dumb” or “smart” pipes,  
network management, quality of service, government regulation,  or  
anything else relevant to the current network neutrality debate.  Now,  
I’m no expert on “software-oriented network” (SON) or “software- 
oriented architecture” (SOA) principles, but I did a little Internet  
research and it seems to refer to (somewhat loosely defined)  
cooperation among/communications between various types of system  
applications used to deliver services, such as OSS (operating support  
systems) and BSS (billing support systems), not end user applications  
(in other words, creating more seamless communication/integration  
between the network/service provider and third parties to which it has  
(contractually) outsourced particular functionalities).  Moreover, SON/ 
SOA also seems to contemplate more, not less, applications  
intelligence residing in the network to facilitate that coordination.   
So, sorry, there is no net neutrality headline here.  (Seems like Mr.  
Burstein could have figured this out with a little due diligence.)"

and

 "note that I wrote down the quote as a I was
listening to the blip.tv video of the panel; if you want to verify that
I got it exactly right here's the link

http://www.nextgenweb.org/supercomm-2009

Go to the Oct. 21 sessions.  Time code of the question on SONs comes at
64:40 - John's comments begin around 69:50."



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