Much later, in the early years of the twenty-first century, the phrase “net neutrality” would become a kind of shorthand for these founding principles of the Internet. The ideal of neutrality bespeaks a network that treats all it carries equally, indifferent to the nature of the content or the identity of the user. In the same spirit as the end-to-end principle, the neutrality principle holds that the big decisions concerning how to use the medium are best left to the “ends” of the network, not the carriers of information.