[171864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Observations of an Internet Middleman / RIP Network Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu May 15 14:55:05 2014
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:41:59 -0700
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> Yes, you've got "some of the largest Internet companies as customers=B2.=
> Because you told them "if you don't pay us, we'll throttle you". Then
> you throttled them. I'm sorry, not a winning argument.
> Nick
Claims by some large ISPs that this is =93untrue=94 rest on the claim =
that they don=92t do traffic discrimination.
While they may not be (and, indeed, are not allowed to) do traffic =
discrimination, what is ignored is that refusing to add sufficient =
peering capacity is, to the consumer=92s perspective (and to the content =
provider=92s perspective as well) effectively the same thing as =
throttling.
I will note that as yet, not one of these providers has claimed that =
they did not refuse to increase peering capacity in order to leverage =
payment, and, indeed, payment does appear to have been leveraged.
Owen
