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Re: Some Clarity Please? said by DiscardedVet:Will someone define this Net-Neutrality for me please? The notion of net-neutrality does not, in my opinion, prevent the creation of tiered service levels. What is does is insure that power remains in with the customer.
For example lets assume you use a Voice Over IP service. You may willing to pay extra to have those packets delivered at a higher priority then other traffic. In a net-neutrality world you as the customer would purchase some sort of value added service from your ISP that stated some percentage of packets suitably marked as high priority will get preferential treatment. It is the responsibly of the end points to mark those packets. The ISP does not have a vested interest in whose packet they are.
The ISP gets to offer differentiated service, customer gets to decide how to use it.
Internet business practices are moving in the opposite direction. ISPs are racing to strike business deals with various companies. They will offer priority service to business partners and slow boat service to non-partners and even slower to competitors.
As has been said by many other posters the tremendous advances made possible by the Internet is in many ways driven by its transparent end-to-end architecture. Anyone can set up shop without permission or cooperation of the network owners. That freedom will be lost if we are not careful.
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Hollywood, FL | said by tschmidt:[ Anyone can set up shop without permission or cooperation of the network owners. That freedom will be lost if we are not careful. Tom, I think you're dead on with this post. Well done.
This really is moving more to a closed system rather than an open one. The closed system of course is where all the speed is, and the open one well...not so much.
It really is pathetic. And of course all the while we see the various (oooh dare I say "shills") "commentors" stating anything less is anti-business. Please.
K.
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