永远的互联网：不使用法令而实现网络中立

Timothy Lee 发表了一篇关于网络中立的长文。看到文章发表在 Cato 中心，也许你可以猜到文章的结论，然而这些结论有其现实和理论的依据。“…很多主张政府放松管制的人低估了互联网的端到端结构，认为中立的网络会很容易地被一个分层的、过滤的、中心控制的网络所替代。互联网开放的结构导致的去中心化，正是互联网令人惊讶的成长的原因；如果互联网去中心化的简单结构被某个中心化的“聪明”的体系取代，这并非一种进步。” 值得一读。

原文见 The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation

Timothy Lee has posted a lengthy paper on the network neutrality debate. One can guess its conclusions simply by noting that it is hosted at the Cato Institute, but those conclusions are backed up by substantial research and reasoning. “Yet many deregulationists underestimate the importance of the Internet’s end-to-end architecture and are too cavalier about abandoning the neutral network for a tiered, filtered, more centrally managed one. The decentralization made possible by the Internet’s open architecture is the key to its astonishing growth, and there is little reason to think that it would be improvement for the Internet’s decentralized ‘dumb’ architecture to be replaced by a more centralized ‘smart’ one.” Worth a read for those who are interested in this subject.