Editing Net neutrality (section)

===End-to-end principle===
Some advocates say network neutrality is needed to maintain the [[end-to-end principle]]. According to [[Lawrence Lessig]] and [[Robert W. McChesney]], all content must be treated the same and must move at the same speed for net neutrality to be true. They say that it is this simple but brilliant end-to-end aspect that has allowed the Internet to act as a powerful force for economic and social good.<ref name="no-tolls"/> Under this principle, a neutral network is a [[dumb network]], merely passing packets regardless of the applications they support. This point of view was expressed by David S. Isenberg in his paper, ''The Rise of the Stupid Network''. He states that the vision of an intelligent network is being replaced by a new network philosophy and architecture in which the network is designed for always-on use, not intermittence and scarcity. Rather than intelligence being designed into the network itself, the intelligence would be pushed out to the end-user devices; and the network would be designed simply to deliver bits without fancy network routing or smart number translation. The data would be in control, telling the network where it should be sent. End-user devices would then be allowed to behave flexibly, as bits would essentially be free and there would be no assumption that the data is of a single data rate or data type.<ref name="rageboy.com">{{cite web|author=Isenberg, David|title=The Rise of the Stupid Network|url=http://www.rageboy.com/stupidnet.html|date=1 August 1996|access-date=19 August 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820170503/http://www.rageboy.com/stupidnet.html|archive-date=20 August 2006}}</ref>

Contrary to this idea, the research paper titled ''End-to-end arguments in system design'' by Saltzer, Reed, and Clark argues that [[network intelligence]] does not relieve end systems of the requirement to check inbound data for errors and to rate-limit the sender, nor for wholesale removal of intelligence from the network core.<ref>{{Cite Q | Q56503280 | access-date = 2022-04-05}} <!-- Saltzer 1984 --></ref>