“I am convinced that there are few goals more essential in the communications landscape than preserving and maintaining an open and robust Internet. I also know that achieving this goal will take an approach that is smart about technology, smart about markets, smart about law and policy, and smart about the lessons of history.” — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, September 21, 2009
On Monday, September 21, 2009, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined proposed net neutrality rules to preserve the openness of the Internet.
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If you haven’t seen it yet, Vint Cerf published a thoughtful piece on Cloud Computing and the Internet on the Google Research blog. In the post, Cerf compares the current stage of cloud computing "Each cloud is a system unto itself” to the state of networking in the 1960’s that led to his and Robert Kahn’s work to interconnect proprietary networks and form the internet.
While the entire post is excellent, and well worth the read, I wanted to call out the questions Cerf raises in respect to connecting the clouds, or as some refer to it, the inter-cloud. Because as every architect knows, the right answers only arise from asking the right questions.
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Posted by brenda michelson at 5:49 pm in Blog, fundamentals, interoperability & portability | Permalink
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