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RE: Google wants your Internet to be faster

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Tue Aug 10 13:29:44 2010

From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:29:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTincWRa1i7JyGa=t0V4+_pzrW0kGidPcdS2LxA=y@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer. =A0=20

The consumer already has this option on many SOHO firewalls.  No action by =
ISPs is required.  But this is totally irrelevant to the idea of Net Neutra=
lity.

> I view this exercise as paying for priority when the circuit is full -- l=
ike a special carpool lane. =20

Carrier circuits should never be 'full', unless your definition of 'full' i=
s 50-70%, IMHO.  100% full is a failure of engineering, business planning, =
and monitoring.  Priority shouldn't be required.

Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg



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