[186334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Slabbert)
Thu Dec 10 14:46:47 2015
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:41:41 -0800
From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20151210193225.GA31851@cmadams.net>
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On Thu 2015-Dec-10 13:32:25 -0600, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
>Once upon a time, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> said:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:07 PM, William Kenny
>> <william.r.kenny@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > is that still net neutrality?
>>
>> who cares? mobile was excepted from the NN rulings.
>
>Any why the desire for extra regulation for Internet services?
>
>Shippers (you know, actual Common Carriers) do things like this all the
>time, especially when they are busy (congested). I had a package ship
>Tuesday; it sat at the receiving location for 24 hours before the first
>move, then it reached my city early this morning, but since I didn't pay
>extra for timed delivery (and the shipper doesn't have special
>arrangements), it didn't go on a truck today. I should get it tomorrow.
>
>I could have paid more to get it faster, and some large-scale shippers
>have special arrangements that seem to get their packages priority. How
>is this different from Internet traffic?
Your package being delayed was based on your service level (what you paid=
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for the service) not the contents of your package or the sender's identity.
If we're going to get into the details of the sender's relationship to the=
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shipping company (i.e. "(and the shipper doesn't have special=20
arrangements)"), note that situation is more analogous to traffic where=20
both the sender and receiver are getting transit from the same provider. =
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If there were two shipping companies (sender uses shipping company A;=20
receiver uses shipping company B, and A & B hand off to each other), the=20
situation would be closer to the discussion.
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>Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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