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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaep0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A .m S SAm Beon Ne Netrliy Poice for Ledrsi in th Information et neutrality has been a contentious policy debate for more than a decade in the US and elsewhere. The basic pol icy goal, shared by proponents and opponents alike, is to maintain robust and open networks so that information technology entrepreneurs can thrive by continually innovating and serving consumers. Regrettably, net neutrality as practiced in the US is failing. There are two basic reasons for the failure. One is that net neutrality policy has lost itsfocusand is now a growing miscellany of ex anteregulations that frequently work against the entrepreneurs and consumers the rules are intended to help. The second reason isthat the net neutrality mindset is locked into afading paradigm in which networks are distinct from computing and content. Facebook, Netflix, and Google are investing in customized networks and, in doing so, demonstrating that next-generation breakthroughs will leap beyond theold mindset. If the USis to continue to be a placewhere consumers, entrepreneurs, and other enterprises can flourish in developing the next generation of information technologies, thecountry must move beyond net neutrality controversies to a policy framework that enablesour industriesto be world leaders. In this paper we describe such an approach by offering aframework that addresses the public- interest concerns and controversies motivating today's net neutrality conflicts and that provides consumers and service providers a way forward with new possibilities. Our approach offers a process for allowing industry players to evolve, new entrepreneurs to disrupt the status quo, and monopoly power to be quickly addressed without counterproductive governmental constraints on innovation. This bar against both abuseof monopoly power and unproductive government controls is important. If a monopoly were to exercise its monopoly power, it would drain economicvalue from thesystem and, to the extent that it could, allow only those innovations that served its monopoly power. Similarly, if the government AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

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