You may recall last week’s discussion of network management, provoked by our FCC filing. Michael Willner also posted about this issue, which then garnered some interesting comments from the likes of George Ou and Robb Topolski.

It’s a good idea to take a look at the whole thing, because it illustrates an important point.  I hope we made the argument sufficiently in our post that some kind of network management is necessary to ensure a quality experience for our customers.  This online discussion illustrates that achieving this is a complex issue. Almost any decision requires you to balance pros and cons. It’s complicated and it’s not clear what the correct path is, which then probably requires a period of some experimentation.

Given all of that, why would you want to put a government agency in charge of deciding what particular method of management should be used?  Or worse, have it decide that no methods of management can be used at all?

Tags: Broadband, network management, P2P

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 am and is filed under Broadband, Network Neutrality. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.