Trouble on the Net by David L. Margulius. InfoWorld, November 24, 2003 (issue 46), p.40-48. There are some big disagreements about the basics of the engineering of the Internet that will greatly affect what the net is and how we can use it. This article describes the players and the issues. The stakes are high, ranging across Internet governance, political control and censorship, commerical control and “rights management”, security, efficiency, innovation, and more. To give you an idea of how basic and vital this issue is, imagine if the World Wide Web were a new application ready to be deployed on The Internet today. A Cisco engineer says it would be hard to implement.

ÒIf we were to try to deploy it
today, we would not be able to do so Ñ
IÕd have to convince IT to allow it
through the firewall Ñ and there has to
be a business reason to do that.Ó

Thanks to Gary Price’s Resource Shelf!

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