The most important point:

End to end character of the web.
How this was a design choice.
Intelligence is at the edges. Network is simple.
Dominant monopoly can’t control/discriminate.
Can’t see who people are.
Can’t forbid certain uses.
This was a fundamental architectural choice.

Larry On End-to-End – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 69 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 59 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 74 MB)
























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day 2 tape 3
Larry On End to End Architecture
The end to end character of the logical layer
2:26 – Difference Between AM and FM Radio
4:15 – How Sarnoff Tried to…
AM/FM Radio Backrounder
David Sarnoff vs. Armstrong and RCA
Packet Switching
How AT & T discriminated against any ideas that wouldn’t benefit their monopoly.
How competition can be crushed by the dominant network provider.
Excite/AT&T – Dominant cable provider
“Blood sucked from our veins”
9:30 – Innovations that gave birth to the internet
10:50 – All by kids and non-americans
11:52 – Policies and Consequences of Architecture
12:08 – End to end character of the web. How this was a design choice.
Intelligence is at the edges. Network is simple.
Dominant monopoly can’t control/discriminate.
Can’t see who people are.
Can’t forbid certain uses.
This was a fundamental architectural choice.
23:14 – Hourglass model
Note to transcribe some of this…
26:20 – voice over IP
32:15 – Commons – What is a commons
33:30 – Tragedy of the commons
34:30 – rivalrous and non-rivalrous resources
39:40 – Innovation Commons
41:40 – Why the property model makes no sense on the Internet.
How it just doesn’t make sense to propertize all resources.
44:35 – Strategic behavior
Competitors do things that benefits them but harms the network
45:40 – Microsoft case – defensive manipulation – note to highlight this
MS stops around 52:00
54:20 – consumer-financial innovation
57:20 – unlicensed spectrum
Day 2 Tape 4
8:00 Media Consolidation
11:00 How the Internet needs to run like the electric network
he mentions my weblog around 12:00
16:20 – Neutral Networks (Note: not “neural” but “neutral”
22:00 – Q and A – why complexity is bad
note: after this point, the numbers are iffy…
27:13 – when property rights aren’t appropriate
28:29 – Eldred economists amicus brief – “no brainer.”
32:00 – maybe “commons” isn’t the right word
not either or but a balance between property and FREE
Eldred wanted to publish his annotated Robert Frost poems.
Note from lisa: people are always asking me what the work was that Eric Eldred was waiting to fall into the public domain that originally brought about the court case. The answer is “Robert Frost poems.”