http://blog.comcast.com/2010/11/comcast-comments-on-level-3.html
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dave CROCKER <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote: > > > On 11/29/2010 2:40 PM, Rettke, Brian wrote: > >> Essentially, the question is who has to pay for the infrastructure to >> support >> the bandwidth requirements of all of these new and booming streaming >> ventures. I can understand both the side taken by Comcast, and the side of >> the content provider, but I don't think it's as simple as the slogans >> spewed >> out regarding "Net Neutrality", which has become so misused and abused as >> a >> term that I don't think it has any credulous value remaining. >> > > > I find it helpful to distinguish "participant neutrality" from "service > neutrality". The first says that you and I pay the same rate. The second > says the my email costs the same as my voip. > > As described, it appears that Level3 is being singled out, which makes for > participant non-neutrality. On the other hand, if Comcast were charging > itself for xfinity traffic, this might qualify as service non-neutrality > (assuming there is a plausible meaning to "charging itself"... > > d/ > > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > >