Dear friends,
in the Internet Policy list from ISOC (Internet Sciety) i received this email from parminder from India. The original text ist:
The Internet's Gilded Age Geoff Huston, 03.2017 http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2017-03/gilding.html
I think, it is important for us to understand, what is going on.
many greetings, willi
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Internet Policy] Transit is dead - and the Internet privatised Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:09:25 +0530 From: parminder parminder@itforchange.net To: internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org
"At Apricot 2017 two weeks back, APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston delivered a scathing, dystopian snapshot on how the telecoms industry has evolved from a public peer-to-peer service - where people had the right to access
telecommunications - to a pack of content delivery networks where the rules are written by a handful of content owners, ignoring any concept of national sovereignty."
For a summary of that presentation, see:
https://disruptive.asia/transit-dead-content-literally-rules/
This should concern ISOC and this group. We are talking about the very fundamentals of this thing called the "Internet". We cannot keep assuming it is still the same, as it used to be, when all the nice things got said about it, and anything against was blasphemy. But the problem is that there has emerged an Internet ideology and Internet community that simply refused to see the writing on the wall, and in the process is causing huge damage to public interest.
parminder