[101855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taran Rampersad)
Sat Jan 19 16:26:41 2008
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:25:54 -0400
From: Taran Rampersad <cnd@knowprose.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20E4D98@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Rod Beck wrote:
>
>
> Ironically, the Net Neutrality debate is about the access providers
> trying to impose usage-based pricing through the backdor - on the
> content providers. It goes without saying I oppose it. It's the end
> users who decide what they view and hence ultimately generate the
> traffic flows. So the end users should be subject to the usage-based
> pricing.
>
Concur. However, comma, if governments are charging taxes (such as the
EU) it leads to the question of what people pay taxes *for* - and paying
more taxes because they use the internet more would mean those that use
more would pay more in usage fees and pay more in taxes - which runs
completely against the stacks of documents written about equality on the
internet. Not taking a side on that, but it is an interesting point to
chew on - realistically, a balance would have to be struck.
And, as an aside, the Network Neutrality issue affects the globe and is
only being debated in one country.
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