http://internetdistinction.com The Internet is not a "specialized service." Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/18/netnods-exemplary-response-to-the-eus-public-consultation-on-traffic-management/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/18/netnods-exemplary-response-to-the-eus-public-consultation-on-traffic-management/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:24:21 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=445 Patrik Fältström and Netnod have provided a sterling example of how to correct the misframing of issues related to “managed services” or “specialized services.”  Read the submission itself for a perfect illustration of how drawing the distinction correctly leads the way to policy insight. (from Netnod’s blog.)   Read the full statement on Netnod’s response [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/18/netnods-exemplary-response-to-the-eus-public-consultation-on-traffic-management/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/18/susan-crawford-not-all-in-googles-kansas/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/18/susan-crawford-not-all-in-googles-kansas/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:00:26 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=443 (Original at Wired) If the current internet access providers that dominate the American telecommunications landscape could get away with it, they’d sell nothing but specialized services and turn internet access into a dirt road. [. . .] [I]ncumbent internet access providers such as Comcast and Time Warner (for wired access) and AT&T and Verizon (for [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/18/susan-crawford-not-all-in-googles-kansas/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/04/meeting-of-open-internet-advisory-board-october-9/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/04/meeting-of-open-internet-advisory-board-october-9/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:53:52 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=439 (from Berkman Center for Internet and Society and FCC) At its October 9, 2012 meeting, the Committee will consider issues relating to the subject areas of its four working groups—Mobile Broadband, Economic Impacts of Open Internet Frameworks, Specialized Services, and Transparency—as well as other open Internet related issues. Tuesday, October 9, 10am-12pm Harvard Law School, [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/10/04/meeting-of-open-internet-advisory-board-october-9/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/29/fcc-announces-open-internet-advisory-committee-members/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/29/fcc-announces-open-internet-advisory-committee-members/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 16:27:10 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=430 (Original at Azi Ronen’s Broadband Traffic Management blog) Sunday, May 27, 2012 While Comcast challenges the Net Neutrality rules (“We do not prioritize our video .. we just provision separate, additional bandwidth for it” – here), OTT providers protest (Sony, Netflix) and the FCC chairman says that “Business model innovation is very important” (here) it [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/29/fcc-announces-open-internet-advisory-committee-members/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/23/eben-moglen-at-f2c-innovation-under-austerity/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/23/eben-moglen-at-f2c-innovation-under-austerity/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 07:29:24 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=422 Eben Moglen describes at Freedom 2 Connect exactly how innovation proceeds on the basis of the whole assemblage of components that enable us to “[let] the kids play and [get] out of the way” (including, of course, the general purpose Internet platform):  ]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/23/eben-moglen-at-f2c-innovation-under-austerity/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/21/freedom-to-connect-2012/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/21/freedom-to-connect-2012/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 10:58:31 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=418 Today and tomorrow, May 21-22, at AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. (See http://freedom-to-connect.net/ and http://freedom-to-connect.net/agenda-2/) About F2C: Freedom to Connect F2C: Freedom to Connect is a conference devoted to preserving and celebrating the essential properties of the Internet. The Internet is a success today because it is stupid, abundant and simple. In other [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/05/21/freedom-to-connect-2012/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/04/23/vint-cerf-in-wired-we-knew-what-we-were-unleashing-on-the-world/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/04/23/vint-cerf-in-wired-we-knew-what-we-were-unleashing-on-the-world/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:39:52 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=412 (Original at Wired Magazine) Wired: So from the beginning, people, including yourself, had a vision of where the internet was going to go. Are you surprised, though, that at this point the IP protocol seems to beat almost anything it comes up against? Cerf: I’m not surprised at all because we designed it to do [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/04/23/vint-cerf-in-wired-we-knew-what-we-were-unleashing-on-the-world/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/12/bob-frankston-from-diy-to-internet/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/12/bob-frankston-from-diy-to-internet/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:59:22 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=406 (Original at Bob’s blog) From DIY to the Internet Slide Commentary Do It Yourself – 1960’s / 1970’s. The Words we Use The World as your Oyster Railroads Telecommunications A Service per Device Stop the Presses! ATT’s at it again! A Break from the Past Rephrasing Any to Any but no Promises Can Act Locally [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/12/bob-frankston-from-diy-to-internet/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/01/doc-searls-edging-toward-the-fully-licensed-world/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/01/doc-searls-edging-toward-the-fully-licensed-world/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:42:01 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=398 (Original at Doc Searl’s Weblog) February 29, 2012 [. . .] Nothing you watch on your cable or satellite systems is yours. In most cases the gear isn’t yours either. It’s a subscription service you rent and pay for monthly. Companies in the cable and telephone business would very much like the Internet to work [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/03/01/doc-searls-edging-toward-the-fully-licensed-world/feed/ 0 http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/01/01/dave-winer-on-apple-twitter-and-tumblr-the-un-internet/ http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/01/01/dave-winer-on-apple-twitter-and-tumblr-the-un-internet/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:06:28 +0000 admin http://internetdistinction.com/?p=387 (Original at Dave’s Scripting News Blog) The Un-Internet By Dave Winer on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM. [. . .] This time around, Apple has been the leader in the push to control users. They say they’re protecting users, and to some extent that is true. I can download software onto my iPad [...]]]> http://internetdistinction.com/blog/2012/01/01/dave-winer-on-apple-twitter-and-tumblr-the-un-internet/feed/ 0