The right to own Internet connections
I. The Premise: The right to own our Internet connections. In the 21st Century, the Internet is the most important tool we all have for our freedom of speech. So it’s important to answer the question:...
View ArticleOf course people care about Internet access.
Ars Technica posted an article today entitled “The poor don’t care about broadband? Of course they do.” The article references a recent study published by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)....
View ArticleThe Economics of Sharing
I. The benefits of sharing. On the Internet, sharing is a solved problem. The Tier-1 backbone providers all save time and money for their international bandwidth via “peering agreements” — contracts...
View ArticleConnecting Local Institutions
The FCC’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) is here, and it’s a big disappointment. While adding to the body of evidence that Internet access competition is poor to nonexistent in America, they still...
View ArticleBreaking the Broadband Monopoly
The legal and political field of broadband has been changing too rapidly for me to keep up with lately. In case you didn’t hear, the FCC has declared Title II reclassification of Internet services as a...
View ArticleA new vision for the Internet, Part 1.
It is difficult to convey how I think the Internet should change, without some basis of comparison. Instead of explaining all the small incremental changes that I think should happen, I’ll tell you...
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An open letter to Level3: Put up or shut up!
To Level3 Communications: Congratulations on becoming the new Content Distribution Network (CDN) provider of choice for Netflix! Netflix provides a valuable and convenient online video delivery...
View ArticleShould we change our name?
I personally apologize for not keeping this site up to date. A lot has been going on in my work and personal life that has kept me away. I was recently happy to see more people have filled out our...
View ArticleLA City Fiber, Request For Proposals (RFP)
Late last year, in November 2013, LA City Council officially requested that the Information Technology Administration (ITA) department issue a Request For Proposals (RFP) for an open access fiber...
View ArticleWhat is a Shares Network?
“Shares network” is a nice short phrase for a complex topic, because this simple combination of the root words share and net can mean multiple things at the same time, all of them equally valid. Here’s...
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