From today’s Freedom2Connect conference in Silver Spring, Maryland
Rick Ringel, director of engineering
Intertel
Understand how ingrained freedom to connect is.
We build communications equipment for the small and medium enterprise.
Look at it from the point of view of the end user. What will he see?
There are two ways to measure it. First we can compare it to yesterday’s network.
We need something better.
Or we can envision an ideal network, an Enlightened Network. I borrowed all my ideas here from the Enlightenment eriod.
It’s a promise of personal choice and fundamental rights.
The Declaration of Independence summarized the Enlightenment.
Identity is existance and existance means life . Mobility is freedom, and freedom is liberty. Innovation is the pursuit of positive change, which leads to happiness.
Identity, mobility and innovation are issues that were with us when the Founders started this country. We need to keep that in mind.
To have an online identity is life. To delete it is death.
If we establish identity as a life, then it exists regardless of transport.
We have property rights to our identities. We own our own identity. And the network needs to understand that.
Let’s talk about mobility. It means the ability to move with one
identity between all the axis points of the network. My identity in the
house should be brought to the office, the car, and the Internet.
Another important aspect of mobility is moving between service providers.
I should be able to move among providers without having to check in and kill my old identity. It’s my identity.
Innovation. The founding fathers talked about pursuit of happiness, bu
ttheydid not define happiness. The same is true of innovation. Within
this new enlightened network we pursue innovation and our own interest.
It’s our right to add new features into the network./ The providers and
customers are one and the same.
When we build this network it’s a legacy, andwe have a choice. We can
leave the legacy of missed opportunity or lead to a new birth of end
user freedom.
