Recent requests

1.  Neutrality Everywhere.  Skype and others want the FCC to require that wireless carriers allow all applications to flow over their networks.  (Jeff Pulver comment here; Nate Anderson article here.)  This is going to be interesting.  The wireless carriers are optimized on billing, and perhaps they should be asked to focus on communications as well.  It's unlikely that the current Commission will deal with this well.  Watch this space.  I'll link to a copy of the petition when it's available.

2.  Liability Everywhere. The Recording Industry Association of America wants people with ISP accounts to be responsible for all infringement occurring on that account.  If they're successful with this argument, the next step will be to go after open access wireless hotspots.  Like the one in my apartment in New York and the one that's helping me get online here in Cambridge, Mass.

3.  Trademarks Everywhere.  So Cisco and Apple did a deal over iPhone.  What is Cisco going to do with the rest of the world about its use of IPTV?  Cisco owns that trademark too: IP/TV, registered more than ten years ago.  Maybe when the router business runs out of steam Cisco can make money from its licensing department.

February 23, 2007 | Filed Under main page 

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