[governance] FW: [Dewayne-Net] Vint Cerf: Internet competition has "evaporated"

[Daniel Kalchev]

This is an very interesting an funny topic.

What is the "public interest" and how does it relate to regulation?

The concept of regulation is simple: "We give you monopoly access to 
limited resource, in exchange you promise to abide by these rules."
Anything outside that is abuse.

So, what is the public interest with relation to Internet? "Free, fast 
Internet for everyone"? If so, then most Government will fall victims of 
"I can promise you things nobody else can do". Companies of all sorts 
will promise this in exchange for something.. a monopoly here and there, 
Government protection, state guarantees etc.

The trouble with the Internet is that there is choice. Internet grew 
bottom up before those folks figured out what it is all about. Now, 
those bribing companies are just some of the many and they usually follow.

The public interest in my opinion is to avoid any kind of monopoly 
deals. Any monopoly deal bring regulation and any regulation bring 
monopoly deals.

Daniel

On 09.01.13 05:05, michael gurstein wrote:
> Interesting discussion pointed to below... but I'm wondering why
> "competition" should be the only legitimate basis for regulation... Doesn't
> the public interest extend rather beyond the functioning of the marketplace?
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dewayne-net at warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-net at warpspeed.com] On Behalf
> Of Dewayne Hendricks
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:37 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Vint Cerf: Internet competition has "evaporated"
>
> Vint Cerf: Internet competition has "evaporated" since dial-up Zero
> regulation for telcos could endanger neutrality, Internet co-creator says.
> By Jon Brodkin
> Jan 8 2013
> <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/vint-cerf-internet-competition-h
> as-evaporated-since-dial-up/>
>
> Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, said today he is troubled by the
> prospect of companies like AT&T avoiding government regulation after the
> transition from traditional phone technology to all-IP networks. Already, he
> said, competition was decimated when the Internet moved from dial-up
> providers to cable companies and telcos.
>
> Cerf-who made the Internet possible by co-developing the Internet protocol
> and Transmission Control Protocol technology 40 years ago-was speaking at
> the Consumer Electronics Show's "Silvers Summit" on technology geared toward
> the older population. "Some people think silver surfers don't know how to
> use technology. I have news for you: some of us invented this stuff," the
> 69-year-old Cerf noted.
>
> This happened to be just one day after AT&T described its plans to retire
> the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network and become an all-IP
> telco. As we reported, AT&T wants to make this transition without being
> subject to what it calls "monopoly-era regulatory obligations," which AT&T
> thinks are unjustified in the Internet age.
>
> Who better to weigh in on that topic than Vint Cerf? He took questions after
> his talk, and I got the chance to ask Cerf to address AT&T's plan and
> comment on whether he thinks extensive regulation of all-IP telcos is
> necessary. Here's what he said:
>
> I'm not allowed to use foul language, right?
>
> My first observation is that it is vital that we maintain openness and
> neutral access to the Internet's capabilities. The fact that you can carry
> voice over the Internet is almost incidental to the fact that you can carry
> any digital content over the Internet. I would not wish to see the question
> of regulation turn on the notion that Voice over IP is PSTN or is a
> replacement for PSTN. It is a replacement for almost everything we can do,
> all of the old network functions can be done on the Internet.
>
> Cerf went on to say network neutrality is important, that we must preserve
> the right of Internet users to choose what applications and websites they
> are able to access:
>
> [snip]
>
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