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@Level3.net
| reply to telcolackey
Re: verizon ... neutrality paranoia
I agree with much of your post but, as you say, the devil is in the details("How this is done is a different discussion" ).
Back in the day, when engineers actually drove most internet decision making such discussions were had as well. The key though is that engineers are driven by the desire to maximize the utility of the network for users. Business managers are driven by the desire to maximize the profit of their company controlling the last mile bottleneck.
Sure there would be discussions about network management if engineers made the decisions but those decisions wouldn't be warped by the incentives that drive management.
I suspect, if you were to really get inside the minds of engineers at comcast, for example, that many of them would express frustration at the decisions being made and the motives behind them. I don't believe that what comcast did was driven by the demands of engineers. |
