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"Network Neutrality": the meme, its cost, its future

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 41, Issue 5

Pages 44 - 45

https://doi.org/10.1145/2043165.2043172

Published: 22 October 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In June 2011 I participated on a panel on network neutrality hosted at the June cybersecurity meeting of the DHS/SRI Infosec Technology Transition Council (ITTC), where "experts and leaders from the government, private, financial, IT, venture capitalist,and academia and science sectors came together to address the problem of identity theft and related criminal activity on the Internet." I recently wrote up some of my thoughts on that panel, including what network neutrality has to do with cybersecurity.

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Gyarmati LStanojevic RSirivianos MLaoutaris N(2014)Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage‐Based PricingSmart Data Pricing10.1002/9781118899250.ch7(167-193)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118899250.ch7
Gyarmati LStanojevic RSirivianos MLaoutaris NByers JKurose JMahajan RSnoeren A(2012)Sharing the cost of backbone networksProceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference10.1145/2398776.2398830(509-522)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2398776.2398830

Index Terms

"Network Neutrality": the meme, its cost, its future
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Transport protocols
  2. Network types
    1. Public Internet

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 41, Issue 5

September 2011

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ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/2043165

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Gyarmati LStanojevic RSirivianos MLaoutaris N(2014)Quantifying the Costs of Customers for Usage‐Based PricingSmart Data Pricing10.1002/9781118899250.ch7(167-193)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118899250.ch7
Gyarmati LStanojevic RSirivianos MLaoutaris NByers JKurose JMahajan RSnoeren A(2012)Sharing the cost of backbone networksProceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference10.1145/2398776.2398830(509-522)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2012
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