On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Gordon Cook wrote:
thank you Vint.
folks please note Vint's remarks on common carriage. This stuff
gets very complicate very fast and i do not have it all at the tip
of my tongue by any means. Vint did engage with Fred Goldstein,
Andrew Odlyzko, David Isenberg and others in a discussion of this
about 3 weeks ago.
Please note also Vint's remark:
If ISPs were to inspect packets and interfere with those of
competing application providers (voice, video), I would consider
that a violation of the principle of network neutrality.
I have NOT been reading this bill carefully myself
dangerous i know. BUT if i understand it correctly this is
precisely what this bill would allow and this is NOT I think what
any of us want. For whatever my opinion is worth I hope you all
will oppose this loud and clear.
Gordon, from what I read the "interfere" part was specifically called
out in the Bill...
I have probably missed some of the "gotcha's". Do you have the
sections where BITS providers will be allowed to interfere/inspect?
The inspect part does not appear to be referenced.
Here is the section I am talking about...
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SEC. 104. ACCESS TO BITS.
(a) DUTIES OFPROVIDERS.—Subject to subsection2
(b), each BITS provider has the duty—3
(1) not to block, impair, or interfere with the4
offering of, access to, or the use of any lawful con-5
tent, application, or service provided over the Inter-6
net;7
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