p2pnet - rss feed: WWW ‘dark period’
p2p news / p2pnet: Attempts to fragment the Net must be resisted, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web. The net should remain neutral.
US attempts to institute a two-tier Net would result in a, “dark period,” the BBC has him telling attendees at a conference on the future of the web WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
“What’s very important from my point of view is that there is one web,” he said. “Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.”
The “right” model, as it exists now, “was that any content provider could pay for a connection to the internet and could then put any content on to the web with no discrimination,” says the story.
“You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for,” said Berners-Lee.
But, “A two-tier system would mean that people would only have full access to those portions of the internet that they paid for and that some companies would be given priority over others” says the BBC.
However, Berners-Lee is optimistic and, “I think it is one and will remain as one,” he said.
Also See:
BBC - Web inventor warns of ‘dark’ net, May 12, 2006
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