Brandon Buchanan
English 1020-32
Cathy Whaley
April 19, 2007
Bibliography Summary
I was quite surprised when trying to find sources for my paper about net neutrality. I had trouble finding more sources after I had found about seven on the ACM database. I tried to look deeper by going through more pages or changing the words I was searching for, but it was hard to find anything that was not the same as something else. I eventually started to look through the LexisNexis database and I found more newspaper and magazine articles, but I was still having trouble finding articles that were not the same as each other. I decided to take some time out and think about more ways I could take my paper and I was able to think of more ways, then go back into the articles and find portions to support my ideas.
While looking for articles on net neutrality, I came across the idea of scrapping the Internet. This was interesting to me, so I thought I would include it in my argument. Recreating the internet could solve the idea of net neutrality because the practicality of the idea could be engineered into the architecture. Even though I had already heard of Internet2, I found out that the Next Generation Internet is a separate internetwork that is trying to resolve the bandwidth and latency issues of the Internet.
Another problem I had was figuring out how to cite the articles. LexisNexis did not exactly say what kind of source it was, so I was forced to determine whether it was a magazine or newspaper by the information that was given at the top of the source. I also found a whitepaper and was not sure how to cite it.