For the majority of people in developed countries, the Internet is invisible most of the time. A socket in the wall, a cell site atop a building, a WiFi password written on a restaurant menu – only rarely are we reminded of the fact that Internet connectivity is not just there like a natural resource. It has become ambient. But for some people there is another side to it. This is a text about the networkers who make the Internet work.
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Since the commercial Internet began in 1995 network operators have explored ways to make internet interconnection work as a market. Yet, a central prerequisite of this market is still ambiguous: the object of exchange.
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Manfred Kloiber from German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk has interviewed me about the internet interconnection survey, which has been published recently. In this interview we speak about the kinds of regulation that networkers have encountered, about which of them they feel most strongly and about what increasing regulation means for the sector. The audio is available here (in German).
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In how far does local regulation of internet interconnection affect global connectivity? At the 10th Internet Governance Forum in Joao Pessoa (Brazil) we started to collectively dimension the issue of public regulation of internet interconnection.
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Cogent and Deutsche Telekom were peers... until the US network operator sued its German counterpart. The case serves to illustrate a broader issue in net policy.
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I have set up a short survey to crowdsource an initial overview about what kind of formal regulation exists and to better understand how this regulation affects internet connectivity. If you are a networking professional, please head here to participate
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