Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-05-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:25 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: >> On 4/27/2014 3:30 PM, John Levine wrote: >>> In a non-stupid world, the cable companies would do video on demand >>> through some combination of content caches at the head end or, for

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-05-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > On 4/27/2014 3:30 PM, John Levine wrote: >> In a non-stupid world, the cable companies would do video on demand >> through some combination of content caches at the head end or, for >> popular stuff, encrypted midnight downloads to your DVR,

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-05-04 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 4/27/2014 3:30 PM, John Levine wrote: That is, with CATV companies like HBO have to pay companies like Comcast for access to their cable subscribers. In a non-stupid world, the cable companies would do video on demand through some combination of content caches at the head end or, for popula

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-29 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Barry Shein wrote: >> I think the problem is simply a lack of competition and the rise of, >> in effect, vertical trusts. That is, content providers also >> controlling last-mile services. >> >> What exists is rife with conflict of interest

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread Robert Tarrall
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Kristopher Doyen < kristopher.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > When last mile ISPs no longer have pressure or over-sight to maintain a > business model that puts user's needs first, because a happy user is a > returning user, you now have an entity who will do anything fo

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Barry Shein wrote: I think the problem is simply a lack of competition and the rise of, in effect, vertical trusts. That is, content providers also controlling last-mile services. What exists is rife with conflict of interest and unfair market power. Particularly in that wire-plants are generall

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread Barry Shein
I think the problem is simply a lack of competition and the rise of, in effect, vertical trusts. That is, content providers also controlling last-mile services. What exists is rife with conflict of interest and unfair market power. Particularly in that wire-plants are generally protected monopoli

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:08:55 -0700, TGLASSEY said: > 1) The pipe issue is that of the last mile providers and not > Netflix. The issue is the failure of the IETF to put controls in place > which address this. It's totally unclear to me that the IETF is the one who failed to put controls in

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread TGLASSEY
On 4/27/2014 9:57 AM, Rick Astley wrote: I wish you would expand on that to help me understand where you are coming from but what I pay my ISP for is simply a pipe, I don't know how it would make sense logically to assume that every entity I communicate with on the Internet must be able to conne

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread Kristopher Doyen
On Apr 28, 2014 7:37 AM, "Justin M. Streiner" wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Rick Astley wrote: > >>> Double-billing Rick. It's just that simple. Paid peering means you're deliberately >> >> billing two customers for the same byte >> >> Where your statement is short sighted I already explained pa

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-28 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Rick Astley wrote: Double-billing Rick. It's just that simple. Paid peering means you're deliberately billing two customers for the same byte Where your statement is short sighted I already explained partly in saying its too difficult to decide who gets a free ride and wh

RE: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Hugo Slabbert
ff the cat back in the bag because at that point this type of preferential treatment would already be an established/common practice. -- Hugo Network Specialist Phone: 604.606.4448 Email: hslabb...@stargate.ca Stargate Connections Inc. http://www.stargate.ca ____________ Fr

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
>Double-billing Rick. It's just that simple. Paid peering means you're >deliberately billing two customers for the same byte I think this statement is a little short sighted if not a bit naive. What both parties are sold is a pipe that carries data. A subscriber has one, Netflix has one. They are

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Barry Shein
I agree with all this, even the parts that disagree with me. -b On April 27, 2014 at 20:30 jo...@iecc.com (John Levine) wrote: > >That is, with CATV companies like HBO have to pay companies like > >Comcast for access to their cable subscribers. > > Well, no. According to Time-Warner's

RE: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread bedard.phil
:) Phil -Original Message- From: "John Levine" Sent: ‎4/‎27/‎2014 4:33 PM To: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover >That is, with CATV companies like HBO have to pay companies like >Comcast for access to their cable subscr

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread John Levine
>That is, with CATV companies like HBO have to pay companies like >Comcast for access to their cable subscribers. Well, no. According to Time-Warner's 2013 annual report, cable companies paid T-W $4.89 billion for access to HBO and Cinemax. No video provider pays for access to cable. The cruddy

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Rick Astley wrote: [...] > It would be sort of the same concept of my grandmother > calling my cell phone yet we both need to pay for our individual phone > lines to at least reach the carrier tasked with connecting our call. Even > if my grandmother calls a busi

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Barry Shein
On April 27, 2014 at 10:04 n...@pelagiris.org (Nick B) wrote: > The current scandal is not about peering, it is last mile ISP double > dipping. I'd characterize it as an attempt to charge content providers for access to last mile customers, where those are two different companies. Which isn't

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Tore Anderson
* William Herrin > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Rick Astley wrote: >> #3 On paid peering: >> I think this is where people start to disagree but I don't see what should >> be criminal about paid peering agreements. More specifically, I see serious >> problems once you outlaw paid peering and t

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Rick Astley wrote: > #3 On paid peering: > I think this is where people start to disagree but I don't see what should > be criminal about paid peering agreements. More specifically, I see serious > problems once you outlaw paid peering and then look at the potentia

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Rick Astley
I wish you would expand on that to help me understand where you are coming from but what I pay my ISP for is simply a pipe, I don't know how it would make sense logically to assume that every entity I communicate with on the Internet must be able to connect for free because I am covering the tab as

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-27 Thread Nick B
The current scandal is not about peering, it is last mile ISP double dipping. Nick On Apr 27, 2014 2:05 AM, "Rick Astley" wrote: > Without the actual proposal being published for review its hard to know the > specifics but it appears that it prohibits blocking and last mile tinkering > of traffic

What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-04-26 Thread Rick Astley
Without the actual proposal being published for review its hard to know the specifics but it appears that it prohibits blocking and last mile tinkering of traffic (#1). What this means to me is ISP's can't block access to a specific website like alibaba and demand ransom from subscribers to access