Designed for change: end-to-end arguments, Internet innovation, and the net neutrality debate

摘要

Many advocates of strict net neutrality regulation argue that the Internet has always been a u27dumb pipeu27 and that the US Congress should require that it remains so. A new report by ITIF Research Fellow Richard Bennett reviews the historical development of the Internet architecture and finds that contrary to such claims, an extraordinarily high degree of intelligence is embedded in the network core.