The Khan Academy has quickly become one of the most valuable resources in online education ever, and Google has contributed a generous $2 million to help this worthwhile cause.

Inimai M. Chettiar and J. Scott Holladay from the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU recycle their flawed analysis arguing for a ban on differentiated services from ISPs even if it provides a better value to content or application providers. That undercuts their core arguments that they are concerned about increasing costs to content providers.

The more I read the Blogosphere the more I realize that the web community seems to be the new entitlement state.  Seems that the latest craze on the web this week is the outrage that Intel is offering a $50 soft upgrade for their microprocessors [CPUs], and the web echo chamber (e.g., DailyTech) is picking [...]

Facebook recently slashed their video bitrate in half which means significant degradation in their online videos. Bitrate is a crucial to video quality and every bit as important as resolution. This alone won’t stop anyone from using Facebook but it does diminish the quality of the service and open the door to competitors.

Podcast of a conference with some distinguished network architects who helped develop the Internet technologies and standards.

Marguerite Reardon reports on a new bipartisan congressional bill H.R. 1521 that would ban new state or local taxes on wireless service. Average taxes for wireless services average more than 15% nationwide while other taxable goods average 7%. This puts wireless taxes into the category of “sin taxes” even though it has economic benefits for society.

Proponents of Internet regulation continue to misrepresent the Internet standards claiming that they don’t facilitate differentiated pricing for differentiated service tiers. We can cite many of the documents within the Internet standards to show that they in fact do.

Free Press is calling on AT&T to retract their letter claiming that the IETF standards envisioned fee based network prioritized networks.

Russ Housley is the Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and he has called out AT&T for what he considers to be misleading comments to the FCC. Housley claims that the IETF never considered fee based network prioritization as AT&T suggests, but that flatly contradicts the explicit language in the IETF DiffServ standard.

Proponents of a dumb First In First Out (FIFO) “end-to-end” Internet architecture are typically lawyers and non network engineers who don’t understand the actual usage and context of FIFO in the paper “End-to-end arguments in system design”. That paper actually argued against a FIFO enabled network.