H.R. 3458 from Representative Ed Markey has nothing to do with how Net Neutrality is generally portrayed and everything to do with stifling the Internet.

Net neutrality is a remarkably complicated issue, not easily divisible into Pro VS Con. Transparency could resolve the potential problems. Perhaps it already has.

Microsoft just launched their new Cinema HD Webcam for $80 list price. The camera supports 1280×720 resolution at 30 fps which is higher than the 960×720 resolution of the dominant Logitech 9000 Pro. With a 720P camera this cheap and the existence of 720P video conferencing software, we can hope for the popularization of personal [...]

Two weeks ago I raised the need for a broadband transparency standard and proposed some ideas just to get the conversation started.  Yesterday, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI) issued their recommendations for a broadband transparency standard, but there are some flaws in their proposal that make it practically impossible to achieve unless [...]

I’m at the ITIF event that George Ou mentioned. Richard Bennett will be unveiling his new report, “Designed for Change: End-to-End Arguments, Internet Innovation, and the Net Neutrality Debate“. He is joined by William Lehr, Christopher Yoo and John Day.

A new report by ITIF Research Fellow Richard Bennett reviews the historical development of the Internet architecture and finds that contrary to such claims, an extraordinarily high degree of intelligence is embedded in the network core. Indeed, the fact that the Internet was originally built to serve the needs of the network research community but has grown into a global platform of commerce and communications was only made possible by continuous and innovative Internet engineering.

Live-blogging Richard Bennett‘s speech (these are paraphrases of their comments, not direct quotes)

ITIF has a great event which is being streamed here.  Our Jon Henke is on site and he will be twittering it live. ITIF Event: Designed for Change: End-to-End Arguments, Internet Innovation, and the Net Neutrality Debate “Many advocates of strict net neutrality regulation argue that the Internet has always been a “dumb pipe” and that [...]

Traditional online gaming has always been a low bandwidth application, but things may change as a company called OnLive releases a new cloud-based gaming service that renders video games in the cloud and then delivers a video of the game play to the end user. I first explained this possibility when I coauthored “The need [...]

Quality of Service (QoS) Network prioritization is complicated. This is a 7 minute animated presentation that attempts to simplify the concept for non-engineers.

As most of us have heard by now, the FCC announced yesterday their intention to create a new “5th principle” of nondiscrimination on the Internet. While there are some serious questions as to whether this is a wise mandate for wireless Internet services, such a principle applied to wired Internet services could be a good thing if it allows for reasonable discrimination.

It seems like the blogosphere and news media is eating up the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) ten best and worst cell phones when it comes to “radiation”. After reading the usual responses from readers, it seems like a lot of people are needlessly concerned about the EWG’s cherry picked report when they should be listening to the American Cancer Society.