The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation

Timothy Lee has posted a lengthy paper on the network neutrality debate. One can guess its conclusions simply by noting that it is hosted at the Cato Institute, but those conclusions are backed up by substantial research and reasoning. "Yet many deregulationists underestimate the importance of the Internet's end-to-end architecture and are too cavalier about abandoning the neutral network for a tiered, filtered, more centrally managed one. The decentralization made possible by the Internet's open architecture is the key to its astonishing growth, and there is little reason to think that it would be improvement for the Internet's decentralized 'dumb' architecture to be replaced by a more centralized 'smart' one." Worth a read for those who are interested in this subject.

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