[173547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Palmer)
Mon Jul 28 00:49:14 2014
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:49:06 +1000
From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 09:08:17PM -0700, Richard Bennett wrote:
> I don't think it's conflation, Joly, since the essence of NN is for
> the eyeballs to pay for the entire cost of the network and for edge
> providers to use it for free; isn't that what Netflix is asking the
> FCC to impose under the guise of "strong net neutrality?"
In a word: no. Net neutrality is about everyone paying their own way to get
their packets to where they want them to go. Netflix doesn't get to use the
Internet "for free"; they pay a whole heck of a lot each month to L3 and
Cogent.
- Matt
