This is very lucid, to say the least. In my perhaps mistaken perception, debates that focus only on the narrow part of the hourglass architecture to call this 'network neutrality' do not encompass but a limited perspective of neutrality (and of the network). For these debates ignore the complete ecology of games implicated in the other layers, they are not neutral at all (this not to question if neutrality can exist in any instance). Furthermore, are we neutral when we make evaluative choices, and, mostly, when from these choices we devise... principles? In other words, was the choice for the end-to-end principle any landmark of neutral political concern? Good news. MT OII On 4/29/07, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I thought some of you might find this interesting/useful.
Internet traffic prioritisation: Internet traffic prioritisation is an increasingly important policy issue as bandwidth demands increase and Internet applications require higher levels of quality of service to function well. Debates about traffic prioritisation, particularly in the context of “network neutrality” discussions, have been divisive. The study provides background for national debates by examining the role of traffic prioritisation in networks and highlighting associated policy and regulatory issues.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/63/38405781.pdf
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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