http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Lauren Weinstein on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-07-05T12:02:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/87590_vint_cerf_government_broadband_access http://www.circleid.com/posts/87590_vint_cerf_government_broadband_access recent event seem to have a triggered a panicky "Vint Cerf proposes nationalizing the Internet" buzz that's been ramping up fairly rapidly. Holy BitTorrent, Batman! Army paratroopers seen dropping into parking lots at AT&T and Comcast, while the Transportation Security Agency orders us all to remove our shoes before surfing the Web! Settle down, everyone. As usual with these kinds of stories, the truth is significantly different from the breathless buzzing. Here's how Vint described his thinking on this issue to me... More...]]> 2008-07-05T12:02:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/isp_point_of_contact_net_neutrality http://www.circleid.com/posts/isp_point_of_contact_net_neutrality NNSquad (Network Neutrality Squad), one of my primary concerns was that many seemingly reportable "events" that can occur on the Internet -- and that might seem on their face to be network neutrality "violations" -- might actually be caused by innocent technical issues related to ISP operations, testing anomalies, or misinterpretation of test or otherwise observed data. Analysis of these situations -- which may invoke security and privacy concerns -- can be quite complex, and without a reasonably complete picture of events can also be considerably problematic... More...]]> 2008-04-08T16:26:00-08:00