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bassexpander
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:50 am Post subject: Google about to anger ISP's |
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24978638-15321,00.html
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GOOGLE has unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.
The scheme is the latest bid in the debate over network neutrality, which pits content companies like Google against some internet service providers.
The ISPs say they need to take reasonable steps to manage ever-growing traffic on their networks for the good of all users. Content and applications companies fear the providers have the power to discriminate, favouring some traffic over others.
Google will provide academic researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the United States and Europe to analyse data, said its chief internet guru, Vint Cerf, known as the "father of the internet."
"When an internet application doesn't work as expected or your connection seems flaky, how can you tell whether there is a problem caused by your broadband ISP (internet service provider), the application, your PC (personal computer), or something else?" Mr Cerf wrote in a blog post.
The effort aims to uncover the problem for users, he said. Mr Cerf is widely known for his work for the US government in designing the internet protocol in the 1970s and 1980s.
In a precedent-setting decision last year, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast of violating the FCC's open-internet principles by blocking file-sharing services, such as those that distribute video and television shows.
The case became a flash point in the internet neutrality debate. Comcast is fighting the decision in the courts. |
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ChinaBoy
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if ISPs will be able to develop software that tells us when Google is filtering "sensitive information" from appearing in search lists in certain countries. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| ChinaBoy wrote: |
| I wonder if ISPs will be able to develop software that tells us when Google is filtering "sensitive information" from appearing in search lists in certain countries. |
Look beyond the apparent hypocrisy and you may find two wholly different motivations. |
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bassexpander
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Chinaboy, Google is bringing out their own operating system and computer set-up that is almost entirely web-based. They don't want ISP's slowing people down, and probably view throttling as a stumbling block for their future plans to challenge Microsoft Windows using this web-based service. |
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