Internet2 VoIP SIG call this Thursday - Isenberg on Network Neutrality

[Candace Holman <>]

We are pleased to announce that David Isenberg will speak on the VoIP 
SIG call this Thursday, 10/26, 2:00 PM EDT, on the topic of Network 
Neutrality.  See bridge information below.

Network Neutrality is hard to define in technological terms and it will 
be harder to enforce -- in fact it is likely to be unsustainable in any 
of its current conceived forms -- but it is essential to fight for it 
because without it, our Internet Access Providers, not us the  end 
users, will have control over what we do on the Internet.  Any 
originator of content should be concerned about the possibility that 
every Internet Access Provider that delivers that content might either 
(a) send the originator a bill for delivering it, (b) refuse to deliver 
it or (c) deliver it in some degraded form.  VOIP operators might find 
it harder (or arbitrarily more expensive) to  interconnect to the PSTN.  
We'll discuss some plausible scenarios for  Network Neutrality (or its 
demise) and some sustainable (but less plausible) alternatives.

David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay, 
"The Rise of the Stupid Network," [1] was received with acclaim 
everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception 
-- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC 
(an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut) and 
to publish The SMART Letter [2], an open-minded commentary on the 
communications revolution and its enemies. See David's blog [3] for 
continued musings about loci of intelligence and stupidity.

[1] http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html
[2] http://isen.com/archives/index.html
[3] http://www.isen.com/blog/

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Cordially,

Candace Holman
Convergence Engineer, University Info Services
Harvard University