Session
P (through ISP) to P: The Internet's other intermediaries
Wendy Seltzer, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Michael W. Carroll, Associate, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Kelly Truelove, Founder & CEO, Truelove Research
Michael Wells, Music Channel Manager, Speakeasy Network
Track: Overview/Infrastructure
Date: Tuesday, November 06
Time: 1:15pm
- 2:00pm
Location: Washington Ballroom
Internet Service Providers will face increased pressure to control the information that passes through their pipes to the Net, if peer-to-peer computing disperses the usual suspects. Legal or market threats to ISPs, and from them to users, could reimpose the centralization P2P was supposed to eliminate. This panel considers how users can work with these unnoticed intermediaries to preserve unmediated Internet communications.