Friday, 21 February 2014

Blog Questions

Network Literacy

What is the “end to end” principle and how does it affect the network and its users?
End to end principal: design principal in computer networking where the end users keeps control and keeps neutrality provided that they can do so completely and correctly.

Reeds Law: the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.

Sarfons Law: # senders valued by the # of receivers > value of a broadcast network is directly proportional to the number of viewers
Metcalfs Law: value of a network is directly proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system > value rises with the number of nodes.

Who is David Reed?
David Patrick Reed is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking and wireless communications networks and is the inventor of Reed's Law.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed)

What are your thoughts about Network neutrality? Why is it an important issue?
I believe that all data should treated equality and that the gouvernment and internet service providers should have no control over it. I believe that it is an important issue because network neutrality preserves users' freedoms. Going against net neutrality would be a violation of people's right to access information, whether or not it has to do with the service providers' competition or not.

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