Hmmmm. Just put everything on the web they said. It'll be fine they said. There's plenty of room they said. And the U.S. handed control of the internet to.............. Doesn't matter. We GAVE up control. Kinda like the Panama canal zone. Like depending on china making yuge replacement transformers for our grid. So, writing things down not such a bad idea after all.
[Since ICANN’s creation, it has been overseeing how web addresses on the Internet are passed out and has been regulating the IANA. Now, it formally owns the IANA.
"Ultimately, the transfer of IANA to ICANN is more of a formality than a real change of policy. But it’s an important formality," wrote Wired. "The fact that the U.S. government had the final say over the domain name system never sat well with the rest of the world, especially after 2013 when Edward Snowden revealed the scope of U.S. Internet surveillance. Severing that last tie to the US will allow foreign governments and companies to have confidence that the Internet is outside of the U.S.’ control."
Politicians who opposed the handover—the quest to keep the technical management of the Internet in U.S. control is led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has previously called the handover a “giveaway of our Internet freedom”—argue that online freedom is in jeopardy and allege that authoritarian governments who are members of ICANN can inhibit freedom of speech on the Internet. According to Cruz, “foreign governments and global corporations will have an increased voice within ICANN moving forward,” which can allow them to censor speech.]
Perhaps rationing of resources would fall under their purview now?
This sounds like financial people drying to drum up some panic.
It doesn’t matter if there’s scarcity or not, someone in government or other powers that be will profit from rationing so there will be rationing.
This is about the ISPs being greedy and not installing enough capacity - in the form of routers - for the load. They designed their systems like a party line betting that only so many of their users would be using services at a time. Bandwidth is almost certainly not a limiting factor.
And with USA internet services being more expensive than most anywhere else in the world they look even greedier.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Part of the issue is that the European countries, while having far faster home and business internet connections than the US on average, are actually often oversubscribed for their available inter-country bandwidth in a scenario like this, unlike the US. In many of those countries, the government itself runs the telco providing most of those inter-country connections, either directly or through public-private partnerships, subsidiaries, etc., and they have been loath to upgrade what they spent an awful lot of money on ‘not too many years ago’ by their reckoning.
This is less an issue of rationing per se than bureaucrats being cheap and being caught out.
This (then networks might want to start prioritizing video traffic) already happens all over the place. I am and many others are working and have been working doubletime to increase Internet pipe sizes over the last couple of weeks for a large provider.
BTW, and for those thinking a fully functioning 5G is coming soon, the densification of available cellular coverage and bandwith is really just starting. 5G is really nothing more than a promise at this point no matter what the commercials say.
I remember from the sci-fi book (and movie) ‘Ready Player One’ that one of the events leading up to the time of the story was the ‘Bandwidth Riots’. The author didn’t go into detail about it, but this sure sounds like the lead-in to something like that.
This is a bad idea. If people can’t get their interweb nommies then they will sit around and start to think.
I think this is about cutting speeds and even access to conservative online media as we get closer to election day.
I am noting youtube only craps out if I am watching something to the Right...
Temporarily denying Europeans access to the Online Nicholas Cage Film Festival does not seem like a horrible burden. :)
Online lessons by public schools will be practically worthless.
It’s obvious to me that ISP’s do not know how to calculate the BW needs of their customers (besides price-gouging for gigs and teras)...
Amazing what we build and then give up....the Panama Canal, the internet....who knows what else.
“Possible”. Right up their with “could” or “might” as performatives to push another hypothetical fear article.
I’ve noticed our Internet/WiFi is struggling occasionally.
“Perhaps rationing of resources would fall under their purview now?”
No, they don’t have anything to do with that, they just manage domain names.
FYI there was nothing that Eddy Snowjob revealed to the public that had not been in the public domain for years, decades, and documented in obscure books available on Amazon. What he did reveal was Methods and Means, but only to the Chinese, the Russians and AQ.
Why don’t we just limit Netflix?