From: "Subbiah Arunachalam"
Date: Sat, April 18, 2015 5:26 am
Friends:
The past few weeks have seen a nationwide discussion on net neutrality.
Many of us LIS folks would like India to adopt net neutrality. Here is an
article by my colleague Sunil Abraham.
Best.
Arun
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Multiple aspects need to be addressed as the clamour grows for network
neutrality
Thursday, 16 April 2015 - 7:50am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna | From
the print edition
Sunil Abraham
In the global debate there are four violations of Network Neutrality that
are considered particularly egregious. One blocking of destinations or
services in order to force the consumer to pay extra charges for access,
two not charging or zero-rating of certain destinations and services
with or without extraction of payment from the sender or destination, and
three throttling or prioritisation of traffic between competing
destinations or services and four specialised services wherein the very
same Internet infrastructure is used to provide non-Internet but IP based
services such as IP-TV.
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To read the full article, you may visit the site,
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-everyone-equally-unhappy-2077796
