Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering  The fight for Net Neutrality
is for the place we call the Net. The fight against Net
Neutrality is for a neutered Net biased toward carrying the next
form of Cable TV. But what about the fact that most of us never
have experienced Neutrality in the first place?  An earlier
version of this article was presented in Doc's March 2, 2006,
SuitWatch newsletter. Click to subscriber to SuitWatch.  It's
time to define the Internet. We haven't done that yet--certainly
not in a way that allows lawmakers and regulators to operate
from the same set of assumptions that we do--"we" being the Net-
savvy techies of the world.  As I pointed out last November in
"Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net
Down the Tubes" , carriers subordinate the Net to the pipes that
carry it, which they own. To them the Net is a container cargo
system for the stuff we call "content", and it's subject to
whatever traffic control regime they wish to impose on it. That
includes tiered service