[133625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Otis)
Tue Dec 14 18:23:21 2010
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:23:08 -0800
From: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20101214223827.GK38726@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/14/10 2:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote:
>> > To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast
>> > has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing
>> > resets, The L3 issue, etc. What's the speculation on the end game?
> I believe Comcast has made clear their position that they feel content
> providers should be paying them for access to their customers.
The Internet would offer lesser value by allowing access providers to
hold their customers hostage. Clearly, such providers are not acting in
their customer's interests when inhibiting access to desired and
legitimate content. What is net neutrality expected to mean?
Providers should charge a fair price for bandwidth offered, not over
sell the bandwidth, and not constrain bandwidth below advertised rates.
Congestion pricing rewards bad practices that leads to the congestion.
-Doug
