[ NNSquad ] Re: Glasnost broadband monitoring tools from Germany

[Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>]

Wes Felter wrote:
> http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/
>
> "The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as 
> residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more 
> transparent to their customers."

Some updates and fallout:

Bennett says the tool gives misleading results:
http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/15/is-comcast-still-really-blocking-bittorrent/

Free Press loves Glasnost:
http://www.freepress.net/node/39863

Orlowski says a neutral network is a broken network:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/free_press_fail/

In the same vein, some people are concerned that a neutral Net could not 
support future applications (in this case, health-related):
http://techliberation.com/2008/05/16/how-net-neutrality-could-sabotage-healthcare-tech/

There's nothing really new here; we have people arguing about the 
definition of "blocking" and restating the same old positions.

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org