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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:19 |
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FUD is Never Out of Style
Ars Technica seems to disassemble the Wall Street Journal's editorial line by line - and points out that if you are going to argue the points of a technology related case, you might want to have some basic understanding of the economics of the creation and distribution of content. Especially when pointing fingers at deployment of edge servers - presented as a more equitable solution for Google and Microsoft to share the burden with ISP's - with the idea that instead of campaigning for net neutrality in the political scheme, they should be taking some steps to do the heavy lifting in delivering the bits.
It's such a good idea that in fact all sorts of organizations have been deploying edge servers to speed delivery of content to customers. The very openness that the ISP's claim to fear is in fact already offloading their network's traffic - all for the reason that an open net permits exactly that sort of placement. Without the guarantee of net neutrality, that creative work around would be off limits.
You can bet that in the bad old days, there would have been no placement of "foreign attachments" to the all powerful telco pipes. That battle was fought 41 years ago in the Carterphone decision. We don't ever want to go back to those days.
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