[governance] FW: [IP] Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web - WSJ.comGoogles response --

[Michael Gurstein]

Evidently the WSJ has been doing some "creative reporting" around the NN
issue and trying to find some movement in various positions concerning the
issue which the principals involved are asserting were never there...
 
MG
 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave at farber.net] 
Sent: December-15-08 2:49 PM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web - WSJ.comGoogles
response -- 


I am surprised at the sloppy reporting of the WSJ in hyping what , at least
from what I can find out,  a "simple" step.  Any comments djf 


Begin forwarded message:

From: "Nick Johnson" <arachnid at notdot.net>
Date: December 15, 2008 6:19:14 AM EST
To: dave at farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web - WSJ.com

Dave,

For IP, if you wish.

This article has been pretty thoroughly debunked - colocating caching
machines at ISPs has little to do with network neutrality, and certainly
doesn't encourage discrimination. Here's Google's official response:

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/net-neutrality-and-benefits-o
f-caching.html

And Lawrence Lessig has written a rebuttal, too:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/wsj-invents-fictiona.html (linked to
BoingBoing, since Lessig's site seems to be down right now).

Full Disclosure: I work for Google, though not in any capacity impinging
upon this. My opinions are entirely my own.


-Nick Johnson



On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:32 AM, David Farber <dave at farber.net> wrote:


So much for the competition and Net Neu djf

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html 




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CLESEARCHQUERY_PARSER=bylineAND> KUMAR and CHRISTOPHER
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&ARTICLESEARCHQUERY_PARSER=bylineAND> RHOADS


The celebrated openness of the Internet -- network providers are not
supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic -- is quietly losing
powerful defenders.

Google <http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=goog>
Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet
traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according
to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally
been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content
providers.

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