[governance] Feld on network management

[Dan Krimm]

http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf/item/988

"Can users shape traffic better than ISPs?"

The inimitable Harold Feld weighs in on network management with an
interesting idea that I haven't seen before:

If anyone has to do it (and for Feld that's still a *big* "if"), the proper
way is to empower users to do it.  (That is, to mandate that ISPs empower
their users to do it, 'cause ISPs certainly won't do it -- i.e., give up
the control -- on their own recognizance.)

This is the kind of thing that regulation is best used for, and it honors
the nondiscriminatory principles of common carriage, as well as the
user-driven dynamics of a genuinely competitive market.

Dan
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