Citation
Aaron Burstein, Fred Schneider. "Trustworthiness as a Limitation on Network Neutrality". Federal Communications Law Journal, 61(3), 2009.

Abstract
The debate about a “network neutrality” rule that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking, degrading, or discriminating against certain applications, content, or protocols has centered on the effect on competition and innovation in a variety of IT markets. But the discourse to date has largely ignored how a network neutrality rule would affect trustworthiness properties, such as security, privacy, and reliability. This article focuses on those trustworthiness concerns. The article outlines several specific trustworthiness-enhancing mechanisms that might be supported by future networks and then examines whether network providers could implement these mechanisms if they were subject to several proposed legislative and regulatory neutrality rules, all of which include some exception for trustworthiness. Some of the proposed neutrality rules are shown to prohibit promising trustworthiness mechanisms, while others include exceptions that swallow much of the neutrality rule. A disclosure regime proposed in the article could allow regulators and the public to monitor instances of network providers' deviations from neutrality to preserve trustworthiness.

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  Aaron Burstein, Fred Schneider. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/626.html">Trustworthiness
  as a Limitation on Network Neutrality</a>,
  <i>Federal Communications Law Journal</i>,
  61(3),  2009.

• Plain text

  Aaron Burstein, Fred Schneider. "Trustworthiness as a
  Limitation on Network Neutrality". Federal Communications
  Law Journal, 61(3),  2009.

• BibTeX

  @article{BursteinSchneider09_TrustworthinessAsLimitationOnNetworkNeutrality,
      author = {Aaron Burstein and Fred Schneider},
      title = {Trustworthiness as a Limitation on Network
                Neutrality},
      journal = {Federal Communications Law Journal},
      volume = {61},
      number = {3},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {The debate about a “network neutrality” rule
                that would prohibit broadband providers from
                blocking, degrading, or discriminating against
                certain applications, content, or protocols has
                centered on the effect on competition and
                innovation in a variety of IT markets. But the
                discourse to date has largely ignored how a
                network neutrality rule would affect
                trustworthiness properties, such as security,
                privacy, and reliability. This article focuses on
                those trustworthiness concerns. The article
                outlines several specific
                trustworthiness-enhancing mechanisms that might be
                supported by future networks and then examines
                whether network providers could implement these
                mechanisms if they were subject to several
                proposed legislative and regulatory neutrality
                rules, all of which include some exception for
                trustworthiness. Some of the proposed neutrality
                rules are shown to prohibit promising
                trustworthiness mechanisms, while others include
                exceptions that swallow much of the neutrality
                rule. A disclosure regime proposed in the article
                could allow regulators and the public to monitor
                instances of network providers' deviations from
                neutrality to preserve trustworthiness.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/626.html}
  }
  

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