[Air-L] how do you build a new internet

Michael Baron webbaron at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 01:03:35 PDT 2007


I suspect we may end up with more than two evils to chose from :). If Public
Internet is no longer feasible, we may end up with a number of parallel
networks running simultaneously.....

On 8/2/07, Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Right, but Google is also going to be deploying a internet connections,
> most likely via wireless (perhaps wimax, depending on how soon they get
> it off the ground). They'll be using all the dark fiber they've bought
> up as well as their vast number of blackboxes around the country... and
> this certainly will not be free, at least not from the standpoint of
> freedom! It'll very likely by dollar-free, though, which is an
> interesting contrast to Microsoft's likely course of action. One must
> choose the lesser of two evils, no?
>
> Michael Baron wrote:
> > I believe there are a number of major corporations (Microsoft included)
> that
> > are trying to develop a so-called "NGN (Next Generation Network).
> However,
> > there are a number of issues associated with it.
> >
> > The simplest but yet the most comlex of them all is "who is going to pay
> for
> > the maintanance and upgrades?" Right now, the Internet is free to use
> (ISP
> > charges are for connection not for use of the network really). If
> Microsoft
> > develops a private network of this kind, I doubt it is going to be "free
> for
> > all".
> >
> >
> > On 8/2/07, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/01/news.internet/print
> >>
> >>
> >> Jeremy Hunsinger
> >> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
> >> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> >> (www.cipr.uwm.edu)
> >>
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> >>
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