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               Immiment Death of the Internet: mpeg @ 127.0.0.1

> The [phone/TV (Television) cable] carriers are going to lobby for the laws
> and regulations they need, and they're going to do the deals they need to
> do. The new system will be theirs, not ours. The NEA principle [1]—Nobody
> owns it, Everybody can use it, Anybody can improve it— so familiar to the
> Free Software [2] and Open Source [3] communities will prove to be a
> temporary ideal, a geek conceit. Code is not Law [4]. Culture is not Free
> [5]. From the Big Boys' perspective, code and culture are stuff nobody
> cares about.
>
> That's us: Nobody.
>
> The new carrier-based Net will work in the same asymmetrical few-to- many,
> top-down pyramidal way made familiar by TV, radio, newspapers, books,
> magazines and other Industrial Age media now being sucked into Information
> Age pipes. Movement still will go from producers to consumers, just like it
> always did. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Literally.
>

“Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the
Tubes [6]”

> Network Neutrality, that is, a network that just delivers the packets,
> stupid, with no cognizance of what app, device, or end-user generated them,
> is an public good that gives rise to much innovation, value creation and
> economic growth at the application layer. It is the single greatest factor
> in the success of the current Internet.
>
> But a Network Neutrality rule, even a strong one, can fail.
>

“http://isen.com/blog/2005/12/what-network-neutrality-rule- wants.html [7]”

> If you want to help save the net [8], bug your provider for IPv6 (Internet
> Protocol Version 6) today.
>
> If you want to **ensure** the Net remains a free place for ideas and
> services - you - yes you, dear reader, must also take action. Implement
> IPv6 at home, and at work. Get a ipv6 tunnel [9] and publish your AAAA
> records! Don't ask for permission. Just. Do. It.
>

“One escape from the silo - ipv6 [10]”

Each article is a definite must-read if you value the future of the Internet.
I know that David Isenberg [11] has been saying this for a long time on
isen.blog [12], but it seems to be coming to a head, what with the entrenched
phone and cable companies wanting to carve out the Internet in their own
(incompatible) images.

And IPv6 would prevent a lot of networking problems [13] and return us once
again to a true “point-to-point” nature of the early (pre- commercial)
Internet.

[1] http://www.worldofends.com/#BM_8
[2] http://www.gnu.org/
[3] http://opensource.org/
[4] http://www.code-is-law.org/
[5] http://www.free-/
[6] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673
[7] http://isen.com/blog/2005/12/what-network-neutrality-rule-
[8] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673
[9] http://www.google.com/search?q=ipv6+tunnel&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-
[10] http://the-/
[11] http://www.isen.com/
[12] http://www.isen.com/blog/
[13] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/11/21.1

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