[GLLUG] Net Neutrality

Karl Schuttler rexykik at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 00:00:17 EDT 2006


It's not a big truck.


It's a series of tubes.

On 10/4/06, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While reading a Slashdot article
> (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/04/0159249.shtml), I found this
> comment by mabinogi.  I think it's a simple yet superlative explanation
> of why the desire of major ISPs to eliminate "net neutrality" is just
> plain wrong.
>
>                                 Chick
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> I don't quite think you understand the issue.
>
> There are four parties involved.
> A. The content provider
> B. The content provider's ISP / Hosting provider, whatever
> C. The consumer
> D. The consumer's ISP (in this case NextGenTel)
>
> Note - A is _NOT_ a customer of D.
>
> If A wants to serve more content at higher speeds, no problem, they pay
> B more money.
> If C wants to get more content at higher speeds, again no problem, they
> pay D more money.
> No one has any problem with that concept.
>
> The problem is when D decides that they can extort money out of A, by
> throttling the traffic between C and A unless A pays them some money -
> regardless of the fact that D doesn't actually provide any service to A.
> They try to use the justification that with there being so much high
> bandwidth content around that they can't handle the load anymore, so
> someone has to pay. But they gloss over the fact that someone _IS_
> paying: C, the customer that actually requested the content from A in
> the first place.
> If C's internet habits are really costing D money, then they should be
> charging C directly, not charging the sites they visit - that's just
> insane.
>
> I don't know how any of these companies think they can possibly justify
> it - they already have the means to cover their costs, it's not the
> content providers' fault that the ISPs are greedy enough to try to
> charge coming and going.
>
>
>
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