(Editor's Note :. The following is a guest blog Christian Dawson, president of i2Coalition It appeared originally on the website i2Coalition 27 February 2015 the i2Coalition is a professional association of Internet infrastructure business which supports those who build the nuts and bolts of the Internet).
Christian Dawson
President of i2Coalition
Congratulations on a hard-fought victory on neutrality net last week.
Unfortunately, a lot of work protecting the Internet opening remains. The long struggle to protect the Open Internet will continue to be chopped in the courtrooms, on Capitol Hill and FCC in the coming years. We must be diligent about staying on top of this issue and ensure that the progress made yesterday is not lost.
Many details remain unclear. We do not know precisely how the rules relate to several specific questions about the treatment of "applications" or discrete content. It is unclear how they will protect the privacy and the particular encryption. Details remain uncertain until at least when the report is actually released, and some issues can be resolved case by case basis as they arise. We do not yet know exactly how the Commission will deal with and resolve conflicts over what he called "interconnection" and "peering" between ISPs, advanced providers and other Internet players. it appears that the treatment of this issue has been beneficial changed over the past few days, but again many important legal and technical details remain unclear, and hope to be fleshed out in the order and rules.
We are pleased that the majority of the commissioners recognized that the regulation of "access to the Internet" uncompetitive does not regulate "the Internet." they are two different things. last mile dominant providers could not be more different from the rest of the Internet industry infrastructure. Cloud and hosting providers and advanced data center and works incredibly hard to thrive in a ridiculously competitive field, where most estimates, there are about 60,000 global competitors - most of them small and medium enterprises - pushing each other to better the competitive market forces. The companies that survive in this space do because the market requires them to be good to survive. We have to keep our prices competitive and our high quality services or we will not survive in the tough competition.
According to the FCC, 67% of American homes have only one or two service providers to choose from. Broadband access is a competitive market; only a few large companies build last mile facilities necessary that the end users of service. To be honest, it's kind of natural that the broadband market ended this way. It does not make sense to many different companies to unearth America's neighborhoods to manage their own fiber last mile to try to compete with each other. It would not make more sense than having many different electric companies run additional power lines to your home - or gas or water and wastewater. Yet until last week to the broadband power was not treated as a natural monopoly, even if it has almost all the features.
In short, the last mile providers looking to make the most of their dominance and market power, and finally said they could not do it. This is great news. But as we solve this huge problem, we must ensure that we protect the entire Internet ecosystem. We do this by defending an open Internet, but we also as teaching people how the Internet works - because what we do not have is the jurisdiction of the FCC and new regulations on all competitive Internet. Last mile access to the Internet is not like the rest of the Internet, and it should be treated according to its attributes. We must also ensure that "interconnection" is not a slippery slope that will eventually add an FCC regulatory framework in the rest of the competitive Internet, and that will take years of education and effort in courts and offices of Congress.
We should all be relatively satisfied with the progress. But this fight was long and arduous, and it is not finished by any means. We must continue to be leaders in the next steps. We hope you'll join us as we continue to fight for an open Internet, innovation, customer choice, security and privacy
About the author :.
Christian Dawson is currently President and co-founder of the Coalition of the Internet infrastructure. He is a strong defender of freedom of the Internet as social and economic growth tool in promoting growth and expansion of the Internet industry infrastructure. You can follow him on Twitter at @mrcjdawson
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