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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Option 1. Telecoms are
constrained from doing any ad-hoc and discriminatory interferences with
traffic based on their business interests and arrangements with different
providers of content and applications. However, this does not mean that they
may not charge content providers differently for quality and speed for
transmitting their content, as long as this special treatment is available to
all for the same price and conditions. <BR><BR>Option 2. Telecoms are
absolutely barred from charging content providers for any special treatment of
their content, i.e. we do not have a tiered Internet, with different quality
and speed of delivery of content as per different charges. <BR><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=218121620-06012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>you
have framed these options poorly.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218121620-06012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Define better what you mean by different "quality and speed" in Option
1. Does it mean that a telecom can't sell me DSL because someone else can only
afford dial up? If not, how is the effect of such economic differentiation any
different than nondiscriminatory offerings of faster treatment?
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<DIV><SPAN class=218121620-06012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Have
you considered that end users might benefit from such anarragnement? it is
clear you olny see the benefit for the suppliers. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218121620-06012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Does
Option 2 mean Akamai becomes an illegal business? (do you know what
Akamai does?) Does it mean that edge caching becomes illegal? if no,
how is the effect different from what you purport to oppose?
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<DIV><SPAN class=218121620-06012009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Who
gets classified as "telecoms"? (don't think the answer to that one is simpe,
my friend. i can point you to decades of regulatory debate with millions or
billions hanging on the answer). </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=218121620-06012009>please don't impose your own egalitarian fantasies on
the internet. imposed equality has nothing to do with what the internet is,
what it was, or what made it successful. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Milton Mueller<BR>Professor, Syracuse University School of
Information Studies<BR>XS4All Professor, Delft University of
Technology<BR>------------------------------<BR>Internet Governance
Project:<BR><A
href="http://internetgovernance.org/">http://internetgovernance.org</A><BR></FONT></P></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>