[governance] UK monopoly power, was SHOULD BANDWIDTH BE METERED?

[Ralf Bendrath]

John Levine schrieb:
>> Yes, since BBC introduced its laudable service, a regular/low price
>> DSL connection isn't sufficient anymore at least in my area to watch
>> videos on the net.

> In this particular case, I'm surprised that the other ISPs don't make 
> arrangements to mirror the Beeb's streaming content on their own 
> networks.
This is exactly what some think the recent Comcast-Bittorrent Inc. deal is 
about: The costs don't come from selling DSL lines to end customers, but 
from peering the uplink traffic across network boundaries. And then it 
might become a network Neutrality issue. If they mirror only traffic from 
/specific/ applications or sources, like the BBC, the ISPs have to monitor 
the traffic closely and make decisions about application layer issues.
See <http://techdirt.com/articles/20080331/185542711.shtml> for the whole 
argument.

Best, Ralf

BTW: My new position and research project: 
<http://bendrath.blogspot.com/2008/04/deep-packet-inspection-or-end-of-net-as.html>
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