[ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality

[Daniel Howard]

Here's a real world example: with DOCSIS 1.1 and beyond, it's possible 
for cable operators to offer their VOIP service with guaranteed quality 
of service using features of the spec, while Vonage uses the best effort 
data service and is cheaper.  Fine, my Vonage service worked great over 
best effort traffic, as long as my HSD service has a high enough 
bandwidth.  I believe it is OK for Comcast to offer their VOIP service 
using DOCSIS 1.1 and beyond with guaranteed quality of service, but it 
is not OK for Comcast to program their systems to purposely reduce the 
quality of service of Vonage by mucking with the ports used, etc., in 
order to encourage customers to switch to their version of VOIP.  How 
you legislate this will be complicated, but I do believe we need to make 
it illegal for high speed data providers to go out of their way to 
prevent third parties from offering decent services over their best 
effort traffic services.

Daniel


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> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:38:51 -0400
> From: "J. D." <jdonline at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality
> To: briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net,	"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts"
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> On 6/10/06, Jim Philips <briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Here's a real world example that shows how this would work. Let's say you
>> call
>> Joe's Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying you'll be
>> connected in a minute or two, but if you want, you can be connected to
>> Pizza
>> Hut right away. That's not fair, right? You called Joe's and want some
>> Joe's
>> pizza. Well, that's how some telecommunications executives want the
>> Internet
>> to operate, with some Web sites easier to access than others. For them,
>> this
>> would be a money-making regime.
>>