Michael Fraase has blogged on David Isenberg’s excellent SMART Letter #100.

David Isenberg has me convinced that the telecommunications and cable companies are structurally and philosophically incapable of network neutrality—the prohibition of “any service that privileges, degrades, or prioritizes any packet… based on its source, ownership, or destination.” He sums this up nicely:

“Netheads want to change the telcos and cablecos to preserve the Internet. Carriers want to change the Internet to preserve themselves.”

He’s also convinced me that the current network neutrality advocates—honorable and commendable as they are—are heading down the wrong path.

Read the entire essay Making Network Neutrality Sustainable: SMART Letter 100.

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