With public cloud providers poised to become indispensable utility providers, neutrality-related mandates will likely emerge to ensure a level playing field among their customers (“tenants”). We analogize with net neutrality to discuss: (i) what form cloud neutrality might take, (ii) what lessons might the net neutrality debate have to offer, and (iii) in what ways cloud neutrality would be dif...

Abstract Neutrality plays an important role as a null model in evolutionary biology. Recent theoretical advances suggest that neutrality is not a unitary concept, and we identify three distinct forms of neutrality. Eu-neutrality means that types do not differ in any measurable way and is thus the idealized form of neutrality. However, individuals or species that do differ in important ways can ...

In Equal Recognition, Alan Patten aims at providing a firm philosophical foundation to minority rights. The main problem with the usual multiculturalist arguments defending such rights is that they are based on controversial conceptions of culture that are at odds with liberal neutrality. To avoid such difficulty, Patten’s argument for strong cultural rights is based on a commitment to neutrali...

We examine the welfare effects of product-line restrictions, such as those called for by some proponents of network neutrality regulation. We consider a platform that brings together households and application providers. We find that restricting a monopoly platform to a single product has the following effects: (a) application providers that would otherwise have purchased a lowquality variant a...

“Network neutrality” encompasses a wide-ranging debate over what limits, if any, should be placed on network providers in pricing or managing Internet traffic. The articles in this volume tackle various aspects of this debate: Have other transportation networks been truly “neutral”? Should broadband providers be allowed to charge content providers for connecting with end users? How much price d...

I. DEVOLUTION OVER DEREGULATION, RETRENCHMENT OVER REFORM .....................................................................................308 II. THE RURAL AND HIGH-COST COMPONENT .............................318 A. Core Statutory Provisions and Other Sources of Law ..........318 B. "Local Usage" and Service Area Definition ...........................323 C. Service Quality Plans, "Wireline...

We investigate fitness neutrality in a Simple Evolutionary Algorithm (SEA) and in a neutrality-enabled evolutionary system using the OneMax problem. The results show that with the support of limited neutrality, SEA is less effective than our system where a larger amount of neutrality is supported. In order to understand the role of neutrality in evolutionary search of this unimodal landscape, w...

This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public goods provision the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either increase or impede voluntary contributions. Surprisingly, very little light is shed in the literatur...

Net neutrality is the focus of an important policy debate that is tied to technological innovation, economic development, and information access. We examine the role of human values in shaping the Net neutrality debate through a content analysis of testimonies from U.S. Senate and FCC hearings on Net neutrality. The analysis is based on a coding scheme that we developed based on a pilot study i...

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