03/11/16: CITP Conference on Global Internet Interconnection » Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton

If you would like lunch and a name tag, please RSVP by Friday, March 4, 2016. The ways that content and Internet service providers interconnect on the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in the nature of the Internet. Interconnection affects many aspects of the Internet experience, including user quality of experience for streaming video, the costs that consumers bear for Internet access, and the security and privacy of consumer data. The rise of streaming video content has introduced significant congestion along Internet paths, raising questions about the causes of this congestion, as well as ways to mitigate it. The Open Internet Order raises new issues about reasonable network management practices for managing traffic demand and congestion. “Zero-rating” and sponsored content present important questions and concerns about citizens’ access to connectivity and content. The rapid proliferation of Internet exchange points in various parts of the world is changing the characteristics of trans-national Internet traffic; at the same time, the Internet remains vulnerable to traffic redirection attacks, sometimes to regions where users do not want the traffic to go. This CITP conference will present a mix of technical and policy perspectives on interconnection. We will explore the ongoing (and forthcoming) technical developments in Internet interconnection and explore how these and other developments relate to the increasingly colorful and nuanced regulatory and policy questions in this space.