NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Cloud Computing is going to make Broadband and Neutrality even more important for the Internet
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:50:01 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Cloud Computing is going to make Broadband and Neutrality even more important for the Internet Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: "Amy Wohl" <amy@wohl.com> Date: September 3, 2009 4:27:52 PM EDT To: <dave@farber.net> Subject: Cloud Computing is going to make Broadband and Neutrality even more important for the Internet Dear Dave, I can’t contribute to the technical discussion of requirements for the Internet but I would like to introduce a notion of changing function into the discussion – which I believe makes adequate broadband standards and net neutrality even more important. We are in the midst of a revolution in architecture. At some point in the near future – five or ten years from now – we are going to find that a very large portion of computing usage – perhaps as high as 30 to 50% - moving from desktops, servers, and large computers at user organizations to shared farms of servers and larger computers “in the cloud.” This is going to make the usage volume of the Internet increase remarkably and because we cannot predict exactly what users (consumers) and user organizations (businesses) will choose to do, network neutrality, permitting them to do nearly anything, becomes much more important. This is not an argument to change the net to provide for specific applications (which we can’t predict anyway), but rather to preserve the ability to continue to use the net for whatever new applications we might imagine, in an environment with sufficient bandwidth to make that both possible and reasonable. Amy Wohl Amy D. Wohl Editor, Amy Wohl's Opinions 40 Old Lancaster Road, #608 Merion, Station, PA 19066 610-667-4842 amy@wohl.com www.wohl.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----