[FRIAM] Net Neutrality?

2010-08-16 Thread Owen Densmore
With all the buzz about Google Verizon, I'm surprised at the use of the term Net Neutrality including Quality of Service. The pundits are concerned that somehow QoS (differential bandwidth/latency) according to service will Destroy The Net As We Know It!! My understanding from early on was

Re: [FRIAM] Net Neutrality?

2010-08-16 Thread Edward Angel
I believe a major part of the concern is that a provider can decide to provide better service for some rather than equal service for all. For example, if you use comcast as your provider, you would be affected if Comcast provided their own streaming video at a high QoS while giving Netflix,