Web Inventor Warns of ‘Dark’ Internet If Broken into Tiers
May 24th, 2006 by tkarrSir Tim Berners-Lee The inventor of the World Wide Web has warned that the internet would enter a “dark period” if large ISPS were allowed to break it up into separate tiers.
Sir Tim told a packed conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday: “What is very important from my point of view is that there is one web. Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring. I think it is one and will remain as one.”
Berners-Lee said the correct way of running the internet was that people should pay for a connection, but not face any kind of discrimination when they searched for information.
“There is an effort by some companies in the US to change this. There’s an attempt to get to a situation where if I want to watch a TV station across the Internet, that TV station must have paid to transmit to me,” he added pointing to ISPs’ near monopoly control of markets in the States.
“I hope that the U.S. will come to the right decision (as) there is a very strong groundswell of opinion for net neutrality,” Berners-Lee said.
Berners-Lee also suggested a chilling effect on voting and democracy could happen should telecom companies gain the right to enforce a tiered Internet.
“It’s better and more efficient for us all if we have a separate market where we get our connectivity, and a separate market where we get our content. Information is what I use to make all my decisions. Not just what to buy, but how to vote,” Berners-Lee later told a room full of reporters.
June 8th, 2006 at 3:03 am
” Net neutrality means simply that all like Internet content must be treated alike and move at the same speed over the network. The owners of the Internet’s wires cannot discriminate. This is the simple but brilliant “end-to-end” design of the Internet that has made it such a powerful force for economic and social good: All of the intelligence and control is held by producers and users, not the networks that connect them.
” By Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney
Hi all,
Can anybody explain what’s this all about ?
Do you guys propose to that congress abolish TOS field in IP header ?
A lot of companies are using private MPLS networks that provide QoS.
Is this also should not be allowed ?