Re: the confusion about net neutrality

To raise a slightly different point, who gets to decide what traffic 
gets prioritized?

We know that the majority of users become frustrated if a site doesn't 
load in a reasonable period of time. This time span is measured in terms 
of single digit seconds.

If we allow the net to become simply another for-profit business 
infrastructure, can we accept that at some point, I might be able to 
bribe, er, pay my ISP to prioritize my traffic (or put another way) slow 
my competitor's traffic to the point where his customers become 
frustrated getting to his site and come to mine?

Here in the US, we had an interesting incident where Netflix "elected" 
to pay Comcast in order to have a faster delivery of their streams to 
Comcast's customers.
http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/netflix-is-20-percent-slower-for-comcast-subscribers-than-last-year/

I have been reliably informed (by a Comcast spokesperson) that at no 
time did Comcast intentionally slow Netflix's traffic and that the 
decaying speeds seen in the graph which accompanies that above link 
actually occurred elsewhere on the net.

Still, if I run an ISP and decide that I do not support a political 
candidate, should it be allowable for me to push their traffic to the 
bottom priority? And if you believe that no one person or corporation 
should have that decision-making authority, who exactly do you believe 
will be able to monitor this behavior or stop it?

Respectfully,

Ken DiPietro
Cumberland MD



On 05/14/2015 07:57 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Traffic engineering for different applications to efficiently operate 
> actually DEMANDS that you look at and prioritise packets so they 
> perform well.
>
> Please steer clear of generalisations.  If you want a reasonable model 
> look at the CDT position paper on network neutrality
>
> Summarised here - 
> https://cdt.org/blog/cdt-supports-effective-narrowly-targeted-net-neutrality-rules/
>
>> On 14-May-2015, at 5:24 pm, Arun Mehta <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   Restricting Net neutrality is a lose-lose option, imo. When you
>>   look at each packet to see whether it gets preference or not, you
>>   slow down the traffic drastically. So much so, that even access to
>>   the preferred sites is likely to be slower.
>>
>> Asking TRAI to regulate experimentation? Terrible idea.
>
>
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