[171374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Sun Apr 27 22:37:36 2014
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:33:30 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 04/27/2014 05:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Beyond that, there’s a more subtle argument also going on about
> whether $EYEBALL_PROVIDER can provide favorable network access to
> $CONTENT_A and less favorable network access to $CONTENT_B as a method
> for encouraging subscribers to select $CONTENT_A over $CONTENT_B by
> affecting the relative performance. This becomes much stickier when
> you face the reality that in many places, $EYEBALL_PROVIDER has an
> effective monopoly as the only player choosing to offer services at a
> useful level of bandwidth/etc. (If that).
Isn't this all predicated that our crappy last mile providers continue
with their crappy last mile
service that is shameful for a supposed first world country?
Cue up Randy on why this is all such a painful joke.
Mike
