[opendtv] Re: Multichannel News: New York Governor Mandates Net Neutrality in Contracts
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:31:29 -0500
On Jan 29, 2018, at 3:21 PM, John Shutt (Redacted sender "shuttj" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Had internet service providers been as highly regulated as Telcos from the
"start" in the late 1990s, we would still be using 128 Kbps ISDN lines on
dedicated twisted pairs, and businesses that required real bandwidth would
still be leasing T1 lines.
We’ll never know, because there were marketplace incentives to deploy
broadband, which resulted in more than $1 trillion in infrastructure investment.
Vonage was attacked by the Title II Telcos, not by internet service
providers. BitTorrent was attacked by content owners who were suing internet
service providers that allowed copyrighted material to be transported over
their networks. And Netflix was attacked by the cable companies who provided
their own content, but have come to terms with Netflix. Comcast downloaded a
Netflix app on my Xfinity X1 cable box, so if you can't beat them ...
Minor nit here John.
Netflix was NOT attacked by the cable industry or Comcast. In reality Netflix
was trying to shake down the cable industry in a effort to shift the costs of
their traffic onto the ISPs. Remember this blast from the past?
https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/
Netflix now pays for its traffic and for co-location with ISPs.
Again, for the fourth time, it is not up to the FCC to SET policy and
unilaterally reclassify internet service providers. It is up to congress to
do so. Let them do so. I applauded Chairman Pai's action, because it
corrected a gross error perpetrated by the Wheeler FCC Commission. And
again, for the fifth time, the error was not the concept of net neutrality,
but THE PROCEDURES USED TO IMPLEMENT THEM.
I generally agree with John here. I would only add that some of the bright line
rules - especially paid prioritization - were not only unnecessary, but
counterproductive, as the modern Internet could not work without paid
prioritization.
Anyone want to go back to the days when it took minutes, even hours to preload
streaming video buffers, using the standard TCP/IP protocols?
Regards
Craig
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