QOTD: Vinton G. Cerf
“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end,” said Cerf, who helped develop the Internet’s basic communications protocol. “My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers’ ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”
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Even as big teleco try to sell us that THEY are the internet and that we should pay them we must remind tham that they are mearly taxi drivers and as such thier only job is take us where we want to go. Paying extra to be dropped off at Penn Station will not be accepted.
March 30th, 2006 at 11:08 am
THe Telcos have said they do not want to create a toll road on the net, so I don’t know that a problem even exists? In any case, I will feel better letting the free market sort this stuff out and not some government regulator incapable of understanding the technical issues.
March 30th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Maven,
The telecos are not proposing Technical changes. The are proposing business changes, so the they can siphon off MORE money from the consumer. And the reasons they state for doing so are not even valid. If I’m paying Internet access and Google is paying for internet access, why should I have to pay MORE just to go to Google? And why should Google pay any more just cause they are the best thing to happen to the Internet since Mosaic?
And the market HAS decided already which way it wants to go. It is the telecos that are going against the wishes of its own customers.