On the other hand, Kon, and I am not advocating this position, but simply repeating an argument I've heard, is an analogy with the package delivery service FedEx.
When you ship a package with FedEx, you have a choice in how quickly you wish that package to arrive, and you pay accordingly. If you wish your package to be there before 10:30 AM the next day, you pay more than if you are willing to have the package arrive 2-3 days later, sometime in the afternoon.
Why shouldn't ISPs also be able to tier their service based on how much the customer is willing to pay and how important their packets are to them?
This is already beginning to be an issue in the commodity internet with the widespread use of VoIP and videoconferencing. The internet standard is already designed to give priority to certain packets through QoS. It is a matter of how (or if) QoS gets implemented among ISPs.
John----- Original Message ----- From: "Kon Wilms" <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
Rubbish. And I must say that this really angers me. Net neutrality is about ensuring that the gatekeeper providers rolling out services to areas can *not* give preferential service treatment to providers they are in bed with and turn their neck of the woods into a restrictive walled garden. It is indeed a punitive mandate -- but not on consumers. Instead, it is on those looking to abuse the internet as it exists in order to extract more money out of their customers. How would you like it if your COX ISP QoS'd your google.com search access in favor of their ad-revenue-sharing branded microsoft Bing search provider gateway? If they restricted you visiting site X because they had a revenue share with site Y? We all know how greedy cable/telco companies are. How they never update their hardware in the field. How they treat customers with the take it or leave it billing attitude. And now you're quite happy to let them control what you can access and at what bandwidth cap? Lunacy. Cheers Kon
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