[3680] in Privacy_Forum
[ PRIVACY Forum ] Vint Cerf: Internet competition has "evaporated"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Tue Jan 8 16:15:51 2013
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:52:05 -0800
To: privacy-list@vortex.com
Message-ID: <20130108205205.GB22966@vortex.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Reply-To: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Errors-To: privacy-bounces+privacy-forum=mit.edu@vortex.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Vint Cerf: Internet competition has "evaporated" since dial-up
http://j.mp/UHjmdI (ars techncia)
"I'm not allowed to use foul language, right? My first observation is
that it is vital that we maintain openness and neutral access to the
Internet's capabilities The fact that you can carry voice over the
Internet is almost incidental to the fact that you can carry any
digital content over the Internet. I would not wish to see the
question of regulation turn on the notion that Voice over IP is PSTN
or is a replacement for PSTN. It is a replacement for almost
everything we can do, all of the old network functions can be done on
the Internet."
- - -
Vint is correct, of course. Clearly, it is technically possible to
design systems that will use VoIP for reliable basic telephone
services. However, what we see happening with the AT&T and "all IP by
2018" crowd is an attempt to use a conversion to an IP-based telephone
network model as an excuse to decimate crucial telephony regulatory
functions related to services compatibility, competition,
accessibility, reliability, capacity, pricing, safety, standards, and
an array of other areas. Can we depend on AT&T and its ilk to follow
through on all of these functions without a rigorous regulatory
regime? History decisively says NO. In fact, history says, "You
gotta be kidding me!"
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
