> From: Brad Beyenhof [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:05 AM > > But then the ISPs could differentiate between CDNs, couldn't they? What's > to prevent the market from being manipulated so that a non-neutral Net can > just discriminate against (or for) large swaths of content providers at once?
Yes they could, but that's the point. Google, Netflix, Amazon, and others could essentially unionize the internet: If Netflix right now were to solicit IT people to relay our traffic through their servers, I and many others would immediately participate. Yes it would incur cost upon them - but the whole premise that Verizon, Comcast, etc are going after is this: Supposedly the big content providers' content dwarfs everyone else's content by comparison. So the addition of some relay servers and the dwarf network traffic should be a relatively small addition to their networks. By eliminating the ISP's ability to distinguish the "big guys'" traffic from everyone else's traffic, then the only recourse the ISP's will have to enforce discrimination, is to throttle everyone's traffic, which consumers can blame on the ISP rather than blaming a specific content provider. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
