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Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sabri Berisha)
Tue Jul 11 05:47:42 2006

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:46:56 +0200
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>
To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <44B2A9C3.53B5B0A1@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:25:55PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote:

Hi,

> So far, much of the argument over "net neutrality" has been over
> whether service providers should be allowed to favor one
> application, destination or Internet service over another. This
> is Net neutrality at the application layer. But the real issue is
> the neutrality of the IP layer where routers treat alike bits
> from every type of application. 

So, what happened to "my network, my rules"?

Perhaps I'm not seeing the point here, but what on earth does a
government has to do with the question wether or not a service provider
implements QoS on his network?

Thanks,

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Sabri

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