Internet 2
In class today we had a discussion about Internet 2. To be honest, while I knew about the topic, I hadn’t really thought enough about it to form a real opinion until we were in class.
The very idea that big companies could buy packet priority for their products and services makes me feel ill.
The Internet needs to stay as it is - uncontrolled. Even amidst the hum that exists as a constant distraction on the web with spammers, scammers, and poorly designed pages - there is a lot of good that exists. I firmly believe that the internet has caused much of our modern social change. Freedom of speech has never been so real. And the nature of the current internet allows for “the little guy” to compete with the “big evil” corporations.
I am not saying that Internet 2 is a bad thing. Far from it. I just think that Internet 2 should be a hardware upgrade that should happen all over the web and that the packet priority should be type specific and not provider specific. For example - make ALL email low priority, because a few dropped packets along the way will not make a huge difference. Also, make bit torrent and other such applications low priority. I really think that a standard hierarchy of priorities could be established that, once standardized on the net, would make Internet 2 as good as it can be without sacrificing the beautiful freedom it’s current incarnation gives us all.
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