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NETWORK NEUTRALITY

NETWORK NEUTRALITY. Principles of Net Neutrality?. The Internet is a fundamentally open system All should be treated equally Regardless of content, size, origin, or destination No one should restrict the flow of information. The Case for Net Neutrality. KEY POINTS Privacy Openness

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NETWORK NEUTRALITY

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  1. NETWORK NEUTRALITY

  2. Principles of Net Neutrality? • The Internet is a fundamentally open system • All should be treated equally • Regardless of content, size, origin, or destination • No one should restrict the flow of information

  3. The Case for Net Neutrality KEY POINTS Privacy Openness Corporate Greed SUPPORTERS Electronic Frontier Foundation • Corporations should not decide which traffic is most important • ISPs only care about profits • May create a tiered pricing system • Traffic charged at both ends • Data Discrimination • ISPs pick and choose traffic • Prevents competition • ISPs could block competing services

  4. The Case Against KEY POINTS Quality of Service Piracy SUPPORTERS Internet Service Providers Communications Lobby MPAA RIAA • Bandwidth is a limited resource • P2P and BT slow network connections of others • Maintaining quality of service for vital traffic is important

  5. Senator Ted Stevens • “…And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material…” Senator Ted Stevens (R AK) 6/28/2006

  6. How Traffic is Controlled • Normal Routing • Looks at headers of packets • Uses address information to get data to its destination • Deep Packet Inspection • Looks at content of internet traffic • Unwanted traffic types are throttled or blocked

  7. Opinion • Net Neutrality is necessary for the internet to continue functioning • ISPs should focus on improving infrastructure • Throttling is not the solution to piracy • Legislation is required • Lobbyists make regulation difficult

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