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Federal Communications Law Journal

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2009

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Trustworthiness As A Limitation On Network Neutrality, Aaron J. Burstein, Fred B. Schneider Jun 2009

Trustworthiness As A Limitation On Network Neutrality, Aaron J. Burstein, Fred B. Schneider

Federal Communications Law Journal

The policy debate over how to govern access to broadband networks has largely ignored the objective of network trustworthiness-a set of properties (including security, survivability, and safety) that guarantee expected behavior. Instead, the terms of the network access debate have focused on whether imposing a nondiscrimination or "network neutrality" obligation on network providers is justified by the condition of competition among last-mile providers. Rules proposed by scholars and policymakers would allow network providers to deviate from network neutrality to protect network trustworthiness, but none of these proposals has explored the implications of such exceptions for either neutrality or trustworthiness.

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