The Wall Street Journal wrote an article on Monday that alleged Google's dealings with ISP's over CDN's and "edge caching" to violate net neutrality principles. The Wall Street Journal seems to have gotten the issues dead wrong, however, causing quite an uproar in the community. The most informative components of this article reside in the 'comments' section.
Furthermore, The Wall Street Journal drew the ire of Professor Lessig, an internet scholar at Stanford University. You can read his blog responses here (1st one), and here (follow-up).
The article also elicited a response from Google itself, which clearly delineates its intentions and limitations with CDN's and edge caching strategies, and futher expounds on its commitment to net neutrality.
What are the lessons is all of this?
1. The Wall Street Journal does not have a thorough understanding of ISP's, internet infrastructure, bandwidth, or net neutrality.
2. Professor Lessig is more preoccupied with defending that his position hasnt shifted, rather than the meat and potatoes whats really important here.
3. Google is doing nothing wrong by trying to bring content faster through the use of CDN's and edge caching.
4. Net neutrality is a really big issue that not enough people understand because they dont know enough about network infrastructure and the business concerns of ISP's and content providers.
5. Obama and the FCC better get this right.
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