Network Security and the Need to Consider Provider Coordination in Network Access Policy

The policy debate over how to govern access to broadband networks has largely ignored the objective of network trustworthiness - a set of properties (Including security) that guarantee that a network will behave as expected. Instead, the terms of the network access debate have focused on whether imposing a nondiscrimination, or network neutrality, obligation on service providers is justified by the condition of competition among last-mile providers. Some argue that, in the absence of a nondiscrimination obligation, service providers will discriminate against content, applications, and services that they (Or their affiliates) do not provide.