The Agnostic Nature of the Internet: Understanding Hardware, Network, and Content Neutrality by@netneutrality
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The Agnostic Nature of the Internet: Understanding Hardware, Network, and Content Neutrality
by Net Neutrality: Unbiased Internet Access for All! April 4th, 2024
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The Internet operates independently of hardware, network configurations, and content types, showcasing agnosticism in these aspects. It prioritizes data packets based on type rather than content, emphasizing efficient and unrestricted connectivity for all users.
Authors:
(1) William P. Wagner IV, Claremont Graduate University.
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Fundamentals of Internet Operation
Areas for Further Exploration & References
3. Fundamentals of Internet Operation
3.1. Hardware Independence.
As long as the hardware meets some basic technical requirements to communicate with its neighbors, there are no specific restrictions on hardware or communications medium. The Internet is Hardware Agnostic. All decisions about a given network’s hardware are left to the network administrator or owner to provide the best solution for their application. Copper, fiber, satellite or cellular – that decision is up to the network owner – the Internet does not care.
3.2. Network Independence.
As long as the data packets arriving and leaving a network meet some basic technical requirements to communicate with their neighbors, there are no specific restrictions. The Internet does not care who the owner or administrator of a given network is or what topology that network employs – it will route packets based on “Best Effort” routing – the Internet is Network Agnostic.
3.3. Content Independence.
As long as the data packets leaving a network meet some basic technical requirements to communicate with their neighbors, they will be prioritized by type not content or source. For example: A home user’s VoIP packet should almost always be more important than an FTP request from a big corporation, except on a subnet of only that company’s FTP servers. The Internet is necessarily Content Agnostic.
This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license.
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