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To: Killian who wrote (12073)7/4/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: RTev  Read Replies (2) of 29970
 
The MarketWatch article quotes Case's message to Congress, "The broadband structures on which the Internet rests -- whether cable, telephone or other -- must be open," AOL Chief Executive Steve Case told Congress in April.

Perhaps. But Case seems to have overlooked something when asking for regulation to guarantee that openness. It's not enough just to provide competition among ISPs, since there's a danger that an ISP might gain so much power that it could begin to threaten the openness that Case claims to desire. If an agency (whether local or national) wishes to guarantee openness, then they should impose a few extra restrictions on the ISPs that gain access to the pipes through their regulations.

Among other things, they should assure the user of true open access to the internet. Among the rules:

-- ISP must support standard open internet protocols.
Among other things that means:
-- The ISP must use standard email protocols so that the user can choose to access email from any client that supports those protocols.
-- The ISP must support standard web protocols so that the user can choose any browser with any home page on that browser.
-- Although the ISP is free to offer additional tools that use proprietary protocols, those tools may not become a required part of gaining access to open internet tools.

I'm sure Case could understand why rules like these would be helpful. Without them, an ISP might trap a user into a closed environment that is the opposite of the kind of "open" experience he claims to covet.
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