On 10/19/06, Tom Perrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, on the one hand, they (providers) should be able to provide (and
people should be able to buy) a higher quality of service.
On the other hand, they shouldn't be able to consign competitors or
non-profits or anyone who won't pay the premium to a service ghetto.
That's my feeling on the issue. It'd be nice to be able to get higher
quality service for, say, VoIP or gaming traffic. But it would not be
nice when some companies start applying that quality differential to
competing web sites. Pretty much: if I pay for my Internet
connection, I get to decide my quality of service and how it's
applied.
And bottom line, for net neutrality: being able to make that decision
is best served by a market process, not government. This is not a
government issue. There's nothing that government can do for this
situation but enforce existing contract laws, and remove government
regulations that hinder competition in the ISP business.
I presently support laws that force phone companies to allow
competitors access to their lines. I'd prefer that the government
devise a new regulatory scheme that allowed anyone to run phone lines,
in which case they wouldn't need to force the owners to allow access
to competitors. I believe that in the future phone lines will be a
thing of the past, as more and varied ways of transmitting information
become available. This is the *real* solution to the specter of net
neutrality issues.
-todd
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