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  • Robert M. McDowell - Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? - washingtonpost.com

    The issue with this gentleman's idea is it contends those who created the problem, should be allowed to solve it. In the early days he described engineers had input, but these are only mythical creatures today. Now only bean counters get input. He again parrots the industry line that p2p... more

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  • Rated by gregtidwell on Jul 28 2008, 5:14pm

    towards solving the internet crisis: collaboration over regulation.

  • Rated by Jewfro-Macabbi on Jul 27 2008, 9:22pm

    The issue with this gentleman's idea is it contends those who created the problem, should be allowed to solve it. In the early days he described engineers had input, but these are only mythical creatures today. Now only bean counters get input. He again parrots the industry line that p2p users are all to blame and a small minority are destroying the net. This is crap. Real problem? ISP's massively oversold their networks assuming most users would only surf a few pages and send email. They are quite shocked to discover those who pay for broadband actually use it. There's also direct conflict of interest in allowing content providers to be Internet service providers. Time Warner and Comcast have vested interest in getting you to spend less time in front of your PC, and that's getting you to spend more time in front of your TV. They need you to keep paying both bills. In fact, they are going to reduce your level of service while demanding you pay more. Bean counters only care about maximizing quarterly profits. They have no interest in spending returns on infrastructure upgrades and build out, even though they promised Congress they would. Even though they were given massive tax breaks for the express purpose of spending those savings upgrading their networks. Instead that money was used to fatten shareholder payments, and now you are asked to pay for infrastructure upgrades - again.

  • Rated by ReubenZamuchnik on Jul 27 2008, 6:25pm

    From the page: "Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? By Robert M. McDowell Monday, July 28, 2008; Page A17 The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic "pipes" were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. The year was 1987. About 35,000 people, mainly academics and some government employees, used the Internet. This story, of course, had a happy ending. The loosely knit Internet engineering community rallied to improve an automated data "traffic cop" that prioritized applications and content needing "real time" delivery over those that would not suffer from delay. Their efforts unclogged the Internet and laid the foundation for what has become the greatest deregulatory success story of all time. "