What's all this talk about "internet sovereignty"

[AccruedExpenditure]

The issue seemed to pop out of nowhere... What's the history behind the story? How far is this likely to get?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

No one knows?

 

[FoBoT]

i assume you are referring to backbone providers wanting to charge deep pocket sites like google for access to their sites?

its all about money. the backbone providers see the traffic and google IPO as an opportunity. they basically figure if google is worth 42 billion dollars (whatever it is), then they should try to blackmail them into paying some $ to the backbones for access.

my opinion is that it is driven by a perception of free money, like sueing tobacco companies , that kind of mentallity

 

[Linflas]

In a nutshell ISP's like Verizon and QWest want to charge a premium to sites like Google otherwise they will flag their packets for lower QOS. Leave it to the Telcos to come up with an idea like this.