Digital Society: FCC NPRM ban on Paid Peering harms new innovators. The NPRM is vague so I wouldn’t be so quick to jump to conclusions about what it means. The phrase “over this link” in the diagram indicates that prioritization over the last mile is the problem, not paid peering. We need to educate the FCC that the NPRM’s language should be revised to exclude interpretations that would damage the Internet. (In the second diagram it’s also not clear why Google gets free peering and other content providers don’t, but that’s neither here nor there.)
Fusion-io sells ioDrive Octal to spooks.
Wired: Assassin’s Creed II Is the Ultimate Killer App.
Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement. This doesn’t really go into governance which is just as important as licensing, but it’s definitely an improvement over Creative Commons.
Ars Technica: Broadcasters fighting back against wireless spectrum reform. In retrospect, I think we should have had tower-sharing and multiplexed digital SD over the air and left HD for cable and satellite.
