Networks and Infrastructure

Net Neutrality

“Net Neutrality” refers to the concept of an “open Internet” whereby end-users can access the lawful content, applications, services and devices of their choice. Policymakers around the world are considering whether and how to ensure that the Internet remains “open” and Internet access service providers do not improperly block or degrade content sent over their networks.

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Research Articles

Title	Author	Year
Layer Architectures and Regulation in Telecommunications This paper looks at how telecommuncations carriers could be regulated.	Andrew Odlyzko	2004
Network Neutrality This letter supports new rules providing for “network neutrality” on the Internet.	Lawrence Lessig, Tim Wu	2003
Internet Points of Control This paper identifies sections of the networks comprising the Internet where content passing over it can be controlled.	Jonathan Zittrain	2003
Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination This paper looks at ideas to support open access to the Internet, including net neutrality rules.	Tim Wu	2003

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Barbara van Schewick
Stanford University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Networks and Infrastructure, Net Neutrality

Christopher Yoo
University of Pennsylvania
Intellectual Property, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Networks and Infrastructure, Broadband, Net Neutrality

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The Recent FCC Ruling Will Not Kill the Internet – A Policy Brief by SIEPR’s Gregory Rosston

Stanford’s Gregory Rosston provides his insights to the net neutrality debate in a policy brief he recently prepared for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

TAP Staff Blogger

January 18, 2018

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Net Neutrality

Given the significance of the Internet, preserving its “openness” – an idea often referred to as “network neutrality” or “net neutrality” – has been a long-standing issue.

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California Could Soon Have Its Own Version of the Internet

"I think that California, like Brussels, certainly might set the bar for compliance on several important tech issues. But this might not lead to balkanization in the way we’re seeing in China and Russia." — Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law, Northeastern University

Woodrow Hartzog
Wired
December 29, 2018

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