[178385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Feb 27 13:06:39 2015
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:56:29 -0500
To: Bruce H McIntosh <bhm@ufl.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Bruce H McIntosh <bhm@ufl.edu> wrote:
> The REAL evil in the ISP marketplace is, of course, essentially entirely
> unremarked-upon - ASYMMETRY.
Hi Bruce,
We part ways there. I see nothing inherently wrong with asymmetric
connections. I see nothing inherently wrong with whitelist-based
services either: we'll sell you web access service, not general
Internet service. I see nothing inherently wrong will selling
measured-rate service: Gigabit port speed, $X/gigabyte prime time,
free off prime. The idea that any particular Internet-related product
must fit one specific mold like symmetry is abhorrent to me.
BUT
Deceit is Bad Behavior. If you sell me an X megabit per second
Internet access service, you should do everything reasonably within
your power to make sure I can access the Internet sites of my choice
at X megabits per second.
Monopoly abuse is Bad Behavior. Be it cross-subsidy (make competitive
overbuilding impossible by covering infrastructure cost with funds
from other high-margin products) product tying (that fiber optic
channel is bundled with our version of Internet service alone) or
double-billing (You, Mr. Disfavored Organization must pay for access
to a customer base which has already paid us for access to you).
These are the real evils in the ISP marketplace.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
