On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Bill Lear <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 12:38:20 (-0500) Shane Mage writes: > >... > >But that's not what Google says it's doing. Whitt explained that > >Google is simply talking with ISPs about a technique called edge > >caching that is commonly practiced by other Web companies, including > >Net neutrality proponent Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). > > A cache has a limited size, and correct me if I'm wrong, but if Google > is a very large portion the traffic, it will more frequently displace > other entries in the cache, making Google appear more "responsive". >
This seems to fall in a murky grey area in the net neutrality controversies. Technologically it makes all the sense in the world to locate caching servers as close to the end user as possible. Yet, it is true that Google is using its superior financial resources to get better access to users than other providers and it does violate the spirit of net-neutrality that "all bits are created equal" etc. Overall, I am much less concerned with Google's arrangement than the possibility that the ISPs and other net-neutrality enemies will use this as rhetorical tool to argue against the concept itself. This is a somewhat dangerous development to be sure... -raghu. -- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." - Steven Wright
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