FCC, transparency and net neutrality: content providers' perspective

The excellent Shane Greenstein gave a PPT at the FCC workshop at MIT Wednesday, and made the rather vital point that if ISPs are increasingly changing their carriage conditions unilaterally by interfering with different apps' QoS, then that is a complete game-changer for the innumerable app developers out there - as he puts it, Comcast could be 'the canary in the goldmine'. See further:

–Shane Greenstein, 2009, Glimmers and Signs of Innovative Health in the Commercial Internet, Colorado High Technology Law Journal.

–Shane Greenstein, 2009, Open Platform Development and the Commercial Internet, in (ed) Annabelle Gawer, Platforms, Innovation and Competition.

–Joel West and Siobhan O’Mahoney, The Role of Participation Architectures in Growing Open Source Communities, 15, Industry and Innovation.

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