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NETWORK NEUTRALITY
Principles of Net Neutrality?
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The Internet is a
fundamentally open
system
All should be treated
equally
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Regardless of content,
size, origin, or
destination
No one should restrict
the flow of information
The Case for Net Neutrality
KEY POINTS
Privacy
Openness
Corporate
Greed
SUPPORTERS
Electronic Frontier
Foundation
 Corporations should not decide which
traffic is most important
 ISPs only care about profits
 May create a tiered pricing system
 Traffic charged at both ends
 Data Discrimination
 ISPs pick and choose traffic
 Prevents competition
 ISPs could block competing services
The Case Against
KEY POINTS
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Quality of
Service
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Piracy
SUPPORTERS
Internet Service
Providers
Communications
Lobby
MPAA
RIAA
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Bandwidth is a limited resource
P2P and BT slow network connections of
others
Maintaining quality of service for vital
traffic is important
Senator Ted Stevens
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“…And again, the Internet is not something that you
just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a
series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those
tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you
put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to
be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube
enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts
of material…”
Senator Ted Stevens (R AK) 6/28/2006
How Traffic is Controlled
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Normal Routing
 Looks
at headers of packets
 Uses address information to get data to its destination
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Deep Packet Inspection
 Looks
at content of internet traffic
 Unwanted traffic types are throttled or blocked
Opinion
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Net Neutrality is necessary for the internet to
continue functioning
ISPs should focus on improving infrastructure
Throttling is not the solution to piracy
Legislation is required
 Lobbyists
make regulation difficult