Keynote Address

Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota

Monday, February 25th, 2008
9:15am-10:15am


Title: False dogmas and real incentives on the Internet

Abstract: The advance of the Internet is hobbled by many false myths, such as that "content is king," that asymmetric connections for residential users are appropriate, that streaming video will dominate, and that user traffic has to be throttled to prevent a collapse of the network. These dogmas ignore lessons of history as well as current reality. The clash of these false perceptions with the real incentives that drive the development of the Internet will be discussed.