An increasingly common thread in the news is the future of the net. The technical political, and regulatory decisions made in the next few years will affect what digital libraries can do and how they can do it. Two recent stories and a couple of background articles are:

• The irony of ‘network neutrality’, News.com
  October 21, 2003, By Diana DeGette.
• Two Companies at Odds Over the Internet’s Future New York Times October 27, 2003. By Steve Lohr.
• The Paradox of the Best Network by David Isenberg and David Weinberger
• World of Ends
  What the Internet Is and
  How to Stop Mistaking It
  for Something Else. by Doc Searls and David Weinberger.
  Last update: 4.28.03

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