I've never been convinced that, because you carry water in your pipes to my house, you get to have a say in whether it goes to my faucet or to my sprinkler.
--Matt On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's hoping they don't, to be honest. > > No matter how many people "want" it otherwise, the ISPs built those > networks, invested billions of dollars in them, and nobody else other than > their shareholders should have a say how traffic is managed on them. > > Now, the counterargument usually goes "but there's no competition", to > which I say "WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?", and point squarely at the government > who mandates monopoly behavior, and who thinks "4G wireless" or "satellite > service" is a legitimate "competition" for TWC 50x5 or FIOS. > > Break the monopolies, invest in getting some competition in there (to undo > the damage of govt-granted monopolies for decades) and then let's see where > we stand. > > D > > > > On Jul 22, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Will Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Related: > http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/21/332678802/one-million-net-neutrality-comments-filed-but-will-they-matter > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Brad Beyenhof > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:05 AM > *To:* Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [lopsa-discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and > ISP monopolies > > > On Jul 22, 2014, at 6:09 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > If the content is distributed by a content distribution network, and LOTS > of services use those networks, then the SSL cert could be "*.akamai.com" > (or whatever) and if the ISP's want to throttle it, their only choice is to > throttle *all* of the content indiscriminantly. > > > 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? > > -Brad > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >
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