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The Invisible Hand vs. the Public Interest in IPv4 Address Distribution

• Comment posted Sep 20, 2011 3:29 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  The analogy to Prohibition does not hold water. IP addresses are (obviously) not contraband. And they are allocated rather than sold. Just as regional numbering authorities should revoke allocations when they go unused, they should also revoke them if they're…

• Comment posted Sep 14, 2011 5:55 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  If IPv4 addresses are allowed to be bought and sold, we'll see exactly the same problems we see with domain names and spectrum. In the case of domain names, we see "squatters" and speculators seeking to cash in on others'…

Why Wireless Broadband Is No Alternative to FttH

• Comment posted Feb 26, 2011 11:11 pm PST — by Brett Glass
  The fact is that fixed wireless broadband providers - WISPs - offer the most cost-effective way to connect users, especially in areas of low population density, and are thereby very competitive with both fiber and copper.

Genachowski to Broadband: Reduce Prices, Increase Speeds, Increase Access, Embrace Competition

• Comment posted May 19, 2010 8:26 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  In a Congressional oversight hearing shortly after he took office, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said: "When the market works and there’s sufficient competition, then the FCC has no need to act. When the market isn’t working, and the consumers could…

The Greatest Free Riders of Our Time

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2010 5:07 am PST — by Brett Glass
  No; the costs aren't shifted to the downloaders. The downloaders (and re-uploaders) are on flat rate connections and therefore pay no more. The ISP foots the bill for the extra bandwidth. And, as my slides show, the costs are not…

• Comment posted Feb 02, 2010 6:10 pm PST — by Brett Glass
  Actually, it is content providers who serve data via P2P who are the biggest free riders. They shift their bandwidth costs to the ISP, multiplying them in the process. See http://www.brettglass.com/FCC/pg0.html and http://www.brettglass.com/FCC/pg1.html.

Obama Reinforces Belief in Net Neutrality

• Comment posted Feb 02, 2010 6:05 pm PST — by Brett Glass
  With people out of work, the mortgage bailout failing, and wages not only stagnant but declining, why was "network neutrality" claimed to be the "most asked" question regarding jobs and the economy? The most likely answer: it wasn't. Google's lobbyists…

Are Google, Microsoft and Apple the Next Utilities in Telecoms?

• Comment posted Jan 27, 2010 9:28 pm PST — by Brett Glass
  Google, like all large companies, is well past the stage of innovation. Even its search engine technology is licensed from Overture/Yahoo!, and was copied from it right down to the Spartan search page of Overture's AltaVista search engine (see http://www.altavista.com).…

• Comment posted Jan 27, 2010 1:51 am PST — by Brett Glass
  Or ISPs (like mine) who introduce and hone new, cost-effective business models and likewise defer profit, only to find that huge corporations like Google are spending millions lobbying to have our innovations made illegal. See http://www.brettglass.com/nprmcomment.pdf

• Comment posted Jan 26, 2010 8:23 pm PST — by Brett Glass
  Amazon's Kindle is a communications platform, and some say that it poses a threat to Wal-Mart as a retailer.

Leadership and Persuasion: Internet Freedom

• Comment posted Jan 26, 2010 2:53 am PST — by Brett Glass
  After all, Google is actively and unapologetically involved in censorship in India. It has, in fact, deleted entire online discussions from its Orkut social networking system because people were criticizing a government official there. If Hillary really were anti-censorship, she…

Google Puts Its Foot Down

• Comment posted Jan 26, 2010 2:43 am PST — by Brett Glass
  What's Google really up to? Google is actively and unapologetically involved in censorship in India, and has in fact deleted entire online discussions from its Orkut social networking system because people were criticizing a government official there. So, Google clearly…

Beyond Net Neutrality: A Manifesto for Internet Freedom

• Comment posted Oct 24, 2009 10:22 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  The lobbying for "network neutrality" in DC is being funded by Google, which is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fund or even take over so-called "public interest" groups and think tanks. Google is the "astroturfer" here, not the…

An Unwelcome Afterlife for a Long-Dead Blacklist

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2009 8:44 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  And who is to say that the blackilst mentioned in this article (which is really a self-serving advertisement) will not one day be a "zombie" too?

Wrong on the "Exaflood," Wrong on Network Neutrality

• Comment posted Oct 07, 2009 6:19 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  It's amusing to see "cheerleaders" for onerous "network neutrality" regulation talk about a fabricated crisis when in fact they are fabricating one of their own — as a political ploy — to get regulation enacted for their corporate masters. And…

Google Exec: ISPs Must Get Tough on Malware Infested Computers on Their Networks

• Comment posted Oct 07, 2009 5:59 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  Unfortunately, Google is lobbying for onerous FCC rules which would prevent ISPs from doing sensible things like blocking the ports used by malware. This is one reason why "network neutrality" regulation is such a bad idea.

Net Neutrality, Health Care, and "The Customer is Always Wrong!"

• Comment posted Oct 06, 2009 1:53 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  "Network neutrality" lobbyists, including Mr. Weinstein, have concocted a pseudo-emergency — as a political ploy — to get regulation enacted. In a way, they're like millennialists who, when the world doesn't end, push back the date and start preaching anew.…

UK to Implement Broadband Tax

• Comment posted Jun 18, 2009 7:30 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  Right now, broadband users in the UK can get the BBC's programming for free, without buying a "TV license," via iPlayer. And the BBC needs to compensate ISPs for iPlayer, because it takes their bandwidth to distribute programs. So, it…

Pew Reports on the State of P2P, Music Online 10 Years After Napster

• Comment posted Jun 15, 2009 6:58 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  Hmmm. They've claimed that they favor anonymity. I guess there is no honor among thieves.

"It's The Internet Stupid" ...I Respectfully Disagree

• Comment posted Jun 15, 2009 1:49 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  You yourself admit, in the message you quote above, that small ISPs would have to be exempted from the onerous over-regulation and micromanagement that you are proposing or they would be put out of business — an obvious sign that…

• Comment posted Jun 15, 2009 5:00 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  Elliot, your attempt to dismiss my remarks as "religious" is argumentum ad hominem. The fact — and I can speak with authority on this topic because I, unlike you, am in the business of providing high speed Internet service to…

• Comment posted Jun 13, 2009 3:38 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  Elliot, if you think there is not enough competition, don't regulate; encourage competition instead. Regulation deters investment, kills innovation, and destroys nascent competition. Big players love it because they have buildings full of lawyers to handle it while their potential…

It's Official: Value Moving to Edge

• Comment posted Jun 13, 2009 3:27 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  As an ISP, I can state authoritatively and conclusively that the value of my network lies in the middle. Among my subscribers, the most popular features are our spam-scrubbing mail server; our Web acceleration (which makes a $30 connection run…

A Clear Case for ISP Regulation: IP Address Logging

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2009 2:34 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  Google's Eric Schmidt even has his own astroturf lobbying group in DC: the "New America Foundation." He funnels millions of Google dollars to it every year and is chairman of the group. Its employees, which include Sascha Meinrath and Michael…

• Comment posted Jun 04, 2009 4:44 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  Bruce, Google actually gathers MORE useful and potentially damaging information than an ISP. It scans every GMail user's mail and compiles a dossier that is used to target advertising. It can then enhance this dossier with information gathered via DoubleClick…

• Comment posted Jun 03, 2009 9:13 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  @Jmil1: Actually, to ask for the addresses contacted, but not the content, is more akin to a "trap and trace" order, which may not require a warrant.

• Comment posted Jun 02, 2009 11:34 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  Conspiracy theorist Lauren Weinstein apparently forgets that Federal law — CALEA, specifically — requires ISPs to have the ability to gather these statistics about users. Mr. Weinstein also conveniently fails to note that, ever since the advent of HTTP 1.1,…

FCC Releases Report on Rural Broadband Strategy, Net Neutrality Key Says Chairman

• Comment posted May 31, 2009 5:34 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  Unfortunately, some folks at the FCC must be drinking the Google Kool-Aid. The fact is that regulation — in particular, the onerous regulation that hides behind the innocent-sounding moniker "network neutrality" — would kill innovation and competition. Preventing ISPs from…

Bandwidth Buyers Face Significant Price Differences in the Global Market

• Comment posted May 31, 2009 4:47 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  What is even more ridiculous is that Level3 wants more than $20,000 per month for 1 GB (not 10 GB!) of bandwidth between Laramie, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado — along an existing long haul fiber route and at an existing…

Crawford Likes Aussie Utility Network

• Comment posted May 31, 2009 4:30 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  The first sentence above should read, "...doesn't believe that solving the middle mile problem is quite all that is necessary." I guess this shows how important the meaning of "is" is. ;-)

• Comment posted May 31, 2009 4:26 pm PDT — by Brett Glass
  David I. comments on his blog, at http://isen.com/blog/2009/05/quote-of-note-brett-glass.html, that he doesn't believe that solving the middle mile problem is quite all that necessary. Maybe not, but it's certainly close. There is in fact so much fiber already in the ground…

• Comment posted May 31, 2009 3:53 am PDT — by Brett Glass
  There's no need for a network like Australia's here in America, because the fiber is already in the ground. The problem is gaining access to it. I am a wireless ISP. I live in a small city which has 5…