[Chapter-delegates] Article in The New York Times

Sat Mar 15 08:11:11 PDT 2008

Things would be quite different if we were talking about the 100 mbps, 
and higher, speed available in countries above us in the list of 
developed countries showing their speeds and costs for users.

My initial reaction to the article was that the only people to benefit 
from trying to "control" the "overload" are those who want to find 
ways of increasing their profits without having to do anything to 
improve the networks...

Mike Todd
President, Mike Todd Associates - www.MikeTodd.com
Supporting the Digital Coast

President, Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter - www.ISOC-LA.org
  mtodd at isoc-la.org

Founder, Digital Divide Task Force, www.ddtf.org (currently under 
significant updates)
  miketodd at ddtf.org

Western Research Application Center, Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California

Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law
Pepperdine University School of Law

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sivasubramanian Muthusamy" <isolatedn at gmail.com>
To: "Alejandro Pisanty" <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>
Cc: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Article in The New York Times

> Dear Sabrina,
>
> The article in New York times needs to be examined seriously. The
> traffic overload, if it may be called so, is one of the aspects that
> need to be observed and measures identified.
>
> 1. It is wonderful to find the content on the net getting richer and
> richer; it feels good to experience increasing bandwidths as it has
> progressed from 14.4 KBPS to 56 to the present trend of 11 MBPS or
> comcast's 16 MBPS, but are we making scientific estimations of 
> average
> available bandwidth per user for at least the next 10 years
> (preferably for a longer duration), average bandwidth usage per 
> user,
> traffic distribution and all other factors that determine the 
> overload
> ?
>
> 2. It is good to download movies, good to upload videos, but while 
> we
> enjoy the ease of the internet, are we examining unnecessary,
> redundant traffic ?
>
> There are several other aspects that needs to be comprehensively
> examined. (For example the IPV4 runout problem.)
>
> The internet requires an overall blueprint for its growth. Otherwise
> we may have some unforeseen problems.
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> ISOC India Chennai.
> http://www.isocindiachennai.in ( in process )
>
>
> On 3/14/08, Alejandro Pisanty <apisan at servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
>> Dear Sabrina, all,
>>
>>  in discussion last evening during the IETF Plenary, this article 
>> was
>>  mentioned. The discussion was following the presentations about 
>> video and
>>  TV over the Internet by two invited speakers. Probably the 
>> memory-sticking
>>  points are:
>>
>>  1. video and TV are taking up about 50% of Internet traffic 
>> already, and
>>  this fraction is growing. The rates of growth are discussed but 
>> somewhere
>>  around 50-55% per year.
>>
>>  2. different ways to provide this video are being explored and 
>> none is
>>  find satisfactory by all experts (peer-to-peer and multicasting 
>> are among
>>  the examples.)
>>
>>  3. in the US there is a lack of sufficient investment in 
>> broadband; "lack"
>>  or "insufficiency" are defined with respect to expectations for 
>> traffic
>>  and services that will be required, and in comparison too a few 
>> (Northern)
>>  economies in Europe and Asia.
>>
>>  4. lesson/message to chapters outside the North: let's look at our
>>  countries' infrastructures and make sure we press for a sufficient 
>> build
>>  of bandwidth at accessible prices and all the way to the users. 
>> This was
>>  not said.
>>
>>  Yours,
>>
>>  Alejandro Pisanty
>>
>>
>>  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  . 
>> .  .  .
>>       Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
>>  UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
>>
>>  *Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
>>  *LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
>>  *Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, 
>> http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614
>>
>>  ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, www.isoc.org
>>   Participa en ICANN, www.icann.org
>>  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 
>> .  .  .  .
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Sabrina Wilmot wrote:
>>
>>  > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:01:04 +0000
>>  > From: Sabrina Wilmot <wilmot at isoc.org>
>>  > To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>>  > Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Article in The New York Times
>>
>> >
>>  > Dear Colleagues
>>  >
>>  > There is an article in today's "New York Times" with a quote 
>> from Fred
>>  > Baker (board member of the Internet Society):
>>  >
>>  > "Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam"
>>  > By STEVE LOHR
>>  > Caution: Heavy Internet traffic ahead. Delays possible.
>>  >
>>  > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/13net.html
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Enjoy!
>>  >
>>  > Best regards,
>>  > Sabrina Wilmot
>>  > ISOC
>>  >
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