http://johnthomson.org/2006/02/09/hearing-on-net-neutrality/ Thoughts on the social impacts of communication policy and educational technology. Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://johnthomson.org/2006/02/09/hearing-on-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:43:46 +0000 http://johnthomson.org/blog/?p=47#comment-2 […] C Net reports that the high volume of video traffic on the net may soon slow everyone down.  The article points to some of the net provider’s arguments against the content neutral Internet, and many of the comments reflect this. However, it goes on to discuss some of the potentials for new developments in video technology. Itiva’s technology works by taking a huge movie file and breaking it up into tiny individual pieces that are formatted just like ordinary Web pages. When they’re downloaded by a user, these individual pieces–Itiva calls them “quanta”–are stored in ISPs’ Web caches, which are already distributed in every network. […]

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