<snip>
You seem
to be taking this beyond what anyone has stated. There may
be those
that say the things that you claim above, however what you
said was that
"...preference of one's own traffic...is not that much
different than..." and
you went on to show a link to a story that
was NOT EVEN CLOSE to the same
thing. That is what I was
pointing
out.
</snip>
For some reason, I am
getting a feeling that thread may be going beyond "topic debate" to "personal
attacks" -- so I will restate my original point (which I may not have been
completely clear on b/c this is a topic that I have been thinking of / examining
for quite some time now, and things that seem obviously clear to me may not be
so for a casual observer)
Now, Look back at the original topic of debate and ask yourself the following question...is there REALLY a distinction between the "prioritization" and/or "discrimination (or blocking taken to the Nth degree) of certain types of Internet packets? If you think about it, prioritizing "certain my preferred packets" across my physical network is really no different than discriminating (depreferencing or blocking) my competitors -- in fact, the Network Neutrality (free love, etc) camp would argue that "allowing" certain providers to pay for prioritized / privilege access is extortion.
The it's my @[EMAIL PROTECTED] network argument
SBC
started it, now BellSouth is getting into the act. Two articles (1, 2) highlight
comments made by William L. Smith, CTO of BellSouth, about how he’d really like
to be able to charge internet companies for priority access to his network and
customers.
A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that
Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web
sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system
that would significantly change how the Internet operates.
William L.
Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told
reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should
be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its
search site load faster than that of Google Inc.
Or, Smith said, his
company should be allowed to charge a rival voice-over-Internet firm so that its
service can operate with the same quality as BellSouth’s
offering.
Network Neutrality Broadband
Challenge
Network Neutrality is the concept that network operators provide free and non-discriminatory transport on their networks between the endpoints of the Internet. This has been a basic concept and function of the Internet since it was invented, and is adopted by the FCC in these four principles to ensure that broadband networks are widely deployed, open, affordable and accessible to all consumers:
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