July 2003
The End of End-to-End?
Internet service providers that control network content will kill innovation.
By Simson Garfinkel
One of the fundamental design principles of today's Internet is so basic and so important that few users have ever heard its name; they just assume its existence. It's called "end-to-end," and some disturbing new developments are putting it in jeopardy. The end-to-end principle asserts that information pushed into one end of the Internet should come out the other without modification: the Net should act like a big, fat, dumb, digital pipe.
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