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Re: Restricted Internet Service If a business had designed the internet instead of it evolving from a government/educational system, we wouldn't need "neutrality principles".
I think they are within their rights to dictate how their service is to be used, but they're being all stupid about it. If they just charged more for certain types of packets, instead of blocking them, it would increase their profits.
The best way is an economically efficient way determined by bidding. This paper, written in 1993, explains a better way of doing things, yet I can't find any recent research or proponents of it: »129.3.20.41/eps/comp/papers/9401/9401002.pdf
Basically, each internet link provided by a company should have a monthly cost for maintaining the link and for future investment. Any single packet on the internet should have a bid to the service provider to carry the packet, representing actual dollars and cents (really a fraction of a cent). Packets are priority forwarded by the bid amount.
People who are using video conferencing should be willing to pay more for their packets than people using a torrent. A little meter applet could show the real-time cost, and you could adjust it up until service was acceptable or down if the price is too high for you. A computer program to set these bids could probably minimize your cost if given the right constraints. There would also have to be a best-effort equivalent lowest denomination (which could be free).
This simple solution would solve all pricing and congestion problems on the internet. Now poke holes in it, I'd like to develop this further. |
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| said by anderboy:If a business had designed the internet instead of it evolving from a government/educational system, we wouldn't need "neutrality principles". You're right. We wouldn't need Internet access at all, as it would be just another expensive service that was one-way and pretty much useless.
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