Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

2010-09-02 Thread Fred Goldstein
At 9/2/2010 03:20 PM, MDK wrote:
>Yesterday, the Chairman released a statement on net neutrality, which
>basically said "We need more public comment".

Yes, we'll need to send in more posts to keep them from producing 
rules that put WISPs and other competitive ISPs out of business.  It 
looks as if this latest statement was hastily produced as a way to 
take what Verizon and Google  agreed to and rapidly turn it into 
rules.  Julius is enamored of "the deal", for the deal's sake, 
whatever the deal is.  He has a hard-on for FiOS and thinks Google is 
a deity, so their collective opinion trumps 310 million Americans' interests.

Note how the proposed rules essentially outlaw the competitive 
provision of non-POTS telecommunications service (anything but plain 
Internet access).  They suggest that a large ISP is allowed to offer 
some small percentage of their network for other offerings, but the 
types of services that IT managers need for business communications 
(links between their buildings, etc.) are apparently to be banned 
from open provision.  This is just a little "gotcha" that Verizon 
snuck in, an exmaple of the type of idiocy that this proceeding, and 
the neutrality movement, has begotten.


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Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

2010-09-02 Thread MDK
Could you give us all a link to these provisions?




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From: "Fred Goldstein" 
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

> At 9/2/2010 03:20 PM, MDK wrote:
>>Yesterday, the Chairman released a statement on net neutrality, which
>>basically said "We need more public comment".
>
> Yes, we'll need to send in more posts to keep them from producing
> rules that put WISPs and other competitive ISPs out of business.  It
> looks as if this latest statement was hastily produced as a way to
> take what Verizon and Google  agreed to and rapidly turn it into
> rules.  Julius is enamored of "the deal", for the deal's sake,
> whatever the deal is.  He has a hard-on for FiOS and thinks Google is
> a deity, so their collective opinion trumps 310 million Americans' 
> interests.
>
> Note how the proposed rules essentially outlaw the competitive
> provision of non-POTS telecommunications service (anything but plain
> Internet access).  They suggest that a large ISP is allowed to offer
> some small percentage of their network for other offerings, but the
> types of services that IT managers need for business communications
> (links between their buildings, etc.) are apparently to be banned
> from open provision.  This is just a little "gotcha" that Verizon
> snuck in, an exmaple of the type of idiocy that this proceeding, and
> the neutrality movement, has begotten.
>
>
>  --
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>  ionary Consulting  http://www.ionary.com/
>  +1 617 795 2701
>
>
>
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Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

2010-09-02 Thread MDK
How, uhh.. .do they propose to ban doing this?



> 
> Note how the proposed rules essentially outlaw the competitive 
> provision of non-POTS telecommunications service (anything but plain 
> Internet access).  They suggest that a large ISP is allowed to offer 
> some small percentage of their network for other offerings, but the 
> types of services that IT managers need for business communications 
> (links between their buildings, etc.) are apparently to be banned 
> from open provision.  This is just a little "gotcha" that Verizon 
> snuck in, an exmaple of the type of idiocy that this proceeding, and 
> the neutrality movement, has begotten.
> 
 



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Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

2010-09-02 Thread Fred Goldstein

At 9/2/2010 05:59 PM, you wrote:

How, uhh.. .do they propose to ban doing this?


By permitting "specialized services" (anything other than a 
bog-neutral wide open Internet service) only under limited 
conditions.  Among them are these proposals, from the new Further Inquiry:


(E) Limit Specialized Service Offerings: Allow broadband providers to 
offer only a limited set of new specialized services, with 
functionality that cannot be provided via broadband Internet access 
service, such as a telemedicine application that requires enhanced 
quality of service.19


(F) Guaranteed Capacity for Broadband Internet Access Service: 
Require broadband providers to continue providing or expanding 
network capacity allocated to broadband Internet access service, 
regardless of any specialized services they choose to offer. 
Relatedly, prohibit specialized services from inhibiting the 
performance of broadband Internet access services at any given time, 
including during periods of peak usage.20




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Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

2010-09-03 Thread MDK
I find it disturbing that almost no public discussion of this is going on.   Is 
this a matter where we think that the imposition will have little or no effect 
on us, or do we expect to simply ignore it, or is everyone just confident it 
won't happen?   

There's a lot going on, on many fronts, economic and social and governmental, 
and our collective future appears headed not just for us having loss on an 
individual basis, but full national currency and economic collapse.  You'd 
think the public list would get mention of at least the FCC actions and 
planning to coordinate resistance - along with how it will affect everyone, be 
they WISPA centric or not.   



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From: Fred Goldstein 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:43 PM
To: WISPA General List 
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski


At 9/2/2010 05:59 PM, you wrote:

  How, uhh.. .do they propose to ban doing this?


By permitting "specialized services" (anything other than a bog-neutral wide 
open Internet service) only under limited conditions.  Among them are these 
proposals, from the new Further Inquiry:

(E) Limit Specialized Service Offerings: Allow broadband providers to offer 
only a limited set of new specialized services, with functionality that cannot 
be provided via broadband Internet access service, such as a telemedicine 
application that requires enhanced quality of service.19

(F) Guaranteed Capacity for Broadband Internet Access Service: Require 
broadband providers to continue providing or expanding network capacity 
allocated to broadband Internet access service, regardless of any specialized 
services they choose to offer. Relatedly, prohibit specialized services from 
inhibiting the performance of broadband Internet access services at any given 
time, including during periods of peak usage.20



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Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

2010-09-03 Thread Fred Goldstein

At 9/3/2010 12:06 PM, MDK wrote:
I find it disturbing that almost no public discussion of this is 
going on.   Is this a matter where we think that the imposition will 
have little or no effect on us, or do we expect to simply ignore it, 
or is everyone just confident it won't happen?




ISPs are notoriously individualistic.  WISPA is doing a great service 
by herding the cats, to the extent possible, but the Bells are the 
ones with the real lobby power, and the subsidized RLECs always 
manage to come out ahead.  It has always been understood that "the 
Internet" is not regulated; telecom is, but WISPs are usually Part 15 
and stay away from that too.  So when there's a real push to regulate 
The Internet, essentially because the public has a rational fear of 
the excessive power that the Bells have already won, small ISPs can 
be caught blind-sided.


There's a lot going on, on many fronts, economic and social and 
governmental, and our collective future appears headed not just for 
us having loss on an individual basis, but full national currency 
and economic collapse.  You'd think the public list would get 
mention of at least the FCC actions and planning to coordinate 
resistance - along with how it will affect everyone, be they WISPA 
centric or not.


You shouldn't confuse bigger macroeconomic issues with small 
regulatory ones.  The economy, for all intents and purposes, 
collapsed in the summer of 2008. The currency, however, is extremely 
strong, for the simple reason that the effective supply of money is 
what really collapsed, and the government's regulated portion of the 
money supply, currency, is what's keeping things afloat.  This is not 
intuitively obvious so you have what looks to me like a hell of a lot 
of demagoguery by politicians trying to worsen the depression in 
order to pin the blame on the President.  I don't want this mailing 
list to get off course so let's leave it at that.


However, the ILECs are so powerful that they are practically like the 
vandals who steal the wires and plumbing out of houses.  They get a 
few hundred dollars of scrap but the repairs cost many 
thousands.  Bells have their power and control protected at all 
costs, regardless of the collateral damage.  "Network neutrality" is 
a feel-good nostrum.  It was spurred when Verizon got the FCC to end 
the Computer II rules that had made the public Internet possible, and 
when Big Ed of SBC opened his mouth too wide and expressed in public 
what they had been planning.  Some pR0n distributors got hold of the 
idea and took control of the agenda.  Real ISPs were, as usual, 
caught in the crossfire, having been left for dead years ago.




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From: <mailto:fgoldst...@ionary.com>Fred Goldstein
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:43 PM
To: <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality statement from Genakowski

At 9/2/2010 05:59 PM, you wrote:

How, uhh.. .do they propose to ban doing this?


By permitting "specialized services" (anything other than a 
bog-neutral wide open Internet service) only under limited 
conditions.  Among them are these proposals, from the new Further Inquiry:


(E) Limit Specialized Service Offerings: Allow broadband providers 
to offer only a limited set of new specialized services, with 
functionality that cannot be provided via broadband Internet access 
service, such as a telemedicine application that requires enhanced 
quality of service.19


(F) Guaranteed Capacity for Broadband Internet Access Service: 
Require broadband providers to continue providing or expanding 
network capacity allocated to broadband Internet access service, 
regardless of any specialized services they choose to offer. 
Relatedly, prohibit specialized services from inhibiting the 
performance of broadband Internet access services at any given time, 
including during periods of peak usage.20




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