> That said, the Internet of today != the Internet of a decade+ ago. Many > incentives operating on participating individuals have changed, and > that's just life (unless you're in charge of regulating a carrier > someplace ;).
Indeed! > I prefer to have carriers who provide a stupidly simple network that > doesn't get paid to drop other people's packets. If it were not for the by-default neutrality in the network, we will not have had the Internet as we know today - warts and all. The public roads and highways do not discriminate on what goes through it - the intelligence is at the end points. Sure, you can meter the roads (ERP for example) and make wider roads (highways) enhancing the bandwidth in that process. If we had to extend non-neutrality to the road system, for example, we would have some people coming out of their HDB estates (Pasir Ris for example) being penalized because they are putting out a large amount (bandwidth) on the road system. Replace Pasir Ris with Google (or any one else) and you get the insanity of non-neutrality. Don't, however, confuse this with what some ISPs give advertise in giving preferential bandwidth access to their "partners". It is a no win situation because no one really subscribes to an ISP because "you get 100M to partner site". Regards. -- Harish Pillay [email protected] gpg id: 746809E3 fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
