[ NNSquad ] Re: Civil Rights Groups Wants P2P Throttling to Preserve Rights (or something like that)

[Vint Cerf <vint@google.com>]

the issue is whether I am using Brett's email services or not, as I  
see it. He is right to resist abuse of email relays. He is also right  
to limit total consumption. but I am not comfortable with the idea  
that he could inspect my packet content and decide on the basis of  
protocol or content what I can send.
On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Vint Cerf wrote:
> > Are you saying that your service is private and therefore you can  
> > decide
> > what I can and cannot send through it?
>
> Ever since the MILNET split from ARPANET, different networks have  
> had different policies.  Neither MILNET nor the ARPANET alone was  
> the "Internet."  Later the NSFNET had research-only, non-commercial  
> use
> policies at the same time other networks like Alternet had  
> commercial traffic.  Alternet even had connections to the Soviet  
> Union at the same time the NSFNET prohibited traffic with the  
> Soviet Union crossing the NSFNET network.
>
> Fast forward to today, and Google has different policies for the  
> use of
> its networks than Lariat has for the use of its network.  Why is  
> that a
> bad thing?  Why should Google decide how Lariat runs its network,  
> or why should Lariat decide how Google runs its network?  Just like  
> ARPANET and
> MILNET had different polices, but were both part of the Internet;  
> why can't Google and Lariat have different policies and both be  
> part of the
> Internet?