http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from David Isenberg on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-08-15T11:09:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/88151_mccain_tech_policy http://www.circleid.com/posts/88151_mccain_tech_policy McCain's Tech Policy would emphasize and extend the two McCain pro-Internet initiatives -- the McCain Lautenberg Community Broadband Act and Spectrum Re-regulation, neither of which have yet seen the light of day -- but it doesn't. In the first case, it makes a vague nod in the direction of "market failure and other obstacles." In the second, it treats spectrum policy as a done deal; now that we can surf the Web in coffee shops, we're done. More...]]> 2008-08-15T11:09:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/f2c_my_opening_remarks http://www.circleid.com/posts/f2c_my_opening_remarks F2C: Freedom to Connect yesterday: "I am honored to be among so many remarkable people. We have to be remarkable people, because we have a hell of a job to do. The Internet has been given to us. It is a miraculous gift, and a boon to our lives... at least in part because it accidentally matured outside the purview of profit and loss. Now the money has arrived. If you want to see what happens when the money arrives, look at Nigeria or Venezuela or Russia or Iraq..." More...]]> 2008-04-01T11:09:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/81163_network_management_excuse http://www.circleid.com/posts/81163_network_management_excuse in a recent blog post, thumbs his nose at the Four Internet Freedoms and says that the FCC should too. Under current leadership, it probably will. Referring to the recent submissions to the FCC by Free Press and Public Knowledge and Vuze complaining about Comcast's use of reset packets to block applications that compete with Comcast's own proprietary video entertainment offering, Cleland says "Network management trumps net neutrality." There are lots of reasons for, ahem, managing. Cleland neglects to observe that controlling congestion the way Comcast does it is like scattering nails in the road for traffic control. More...]]> 2008-01-16T16:16:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/711171_financial_times_telecom_separation http://www.circleid.com/posts/711171_financial_times_telecom_separation laid out how this exception is likely to become a giant vacuum-cleaner-fish loophole. The way out is the separation of infrastructure from service, so infrastructure operators can have no financial interests in the services they carry, hence no motive to discriminate in anti-competitive ways. Now today's Financial Times has an editorial on the EC telecom regulator, Viviane Reding's proposal to beef up national telecom regulatory authority within European countries and create a Europe-wide so-called super-regulator. More...]]> 2007-11-17T14:30:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/net_neutrality_law_not_enough http://www.circleid.com/posts/net_neutrality_law_not_enough More...]]> 2007-10-22T13:02:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/fcc_network_neutrality_comments http://www.circleid.com/posts/fcc_network_neutrality_comments .doc, .pdf]. The first hundred are here, with links to the rest. More...]]> 2007-07-18T10:41:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/network_neutrality_communication_types http://www.circleid.com/posts/network_neutrality_communication_types Creating Sustainable Network Neutrality paper wrote to say, "Help me understand what is so bad about treating different types of communications differently." That's a really good question! If you want to offer vertically integrated services on special purpose networks, such as video entertainment or pager service or telephony, I do not have a problem with that, provided you don't use your market power to impede Internet applications that offer competing services... More...]]> 2007-06-01T15:53:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/clues_about_the_future_of_tv http://www.circleid.com/posts/clues_about_the_future_of_tv article chronicles the telcos' slow start in cable TV. I don't think the telcos stand a chance of succeeding in cable TV. Instead, if they're to succeed at all, they'll probably buy or form alliances with existing cablecos... But they'd better start swimming, because the times are a changing.. More...]]> 2007-05-14T14:33:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_increase_broadband_competition http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_increase_broadband_competition More...]]> 2006-05-09T09:41:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_comcast_impairing_vonage http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_comcast_impairing_vonage points to Russell Shaw's post that says: "I have been noticing a growing number of posts in which many Vonage users and Vonage Forum Members have been complaining about the quality of Vonage calls over Comcast broadband connections..." More...]]> 2006-03-06T14:25:00-08:00