Does the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 give government too much control over the internet? A Congressional staffer who works on the issue says the vague language does not make the legislation innocuous.

Akamai has released its 2009 Q2 State of the Internet report.

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

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)

The FCC recently solicited comments on how we should define broadband. Many comments have focused on a speed-based definition, others on access to applications or “what it enables“, others on using the definition of broadband to advance policy goals in other areas. The definition is necessarily going to be pretty subjective, so – while there’s [...]

When Congress returns after the Labor Day weekend, a lot of attention will be focused on President Obama’s proposed health insurance reform.  But tax issues are going to arise very soon – how could they not (see: cost of health insurance reform + existing deficits) – and you can expect it to have some potentially [...]

This debate over the use of cookies on government websites is important, but it strikes me as an easily resolvable matter. The OSTP blog outlines the administration’s interest in updating the rules surrounding cookies…

Our main goal in revisiting the ban on using persistent cookies on Federal websites is to bring the federal government into the 21st century. Consistent with this Administration’s commitment to making government more open and participatory, we want federal agencies to be able to provide the same user- friendly, dynamic, and citizen-centric websites that people…