[governance] 'search neutrality' to go with net neutrality

[Lee W McKnight]

The whole point of content delivery networks is to speed up the delivery of *some* content based on its source, ownership &/or destination.

They may 'discriminate' against everyone who is not their paying customer.

But CDNs aren't ISPs....and they have nothing to do with 'net neutrality.'  

Nothing to see here, move along please.


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From: Roland Perry [roland at internetpolicyagency.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:57 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] 'search neutrality' to go with net neutrality

In message <f65fb55e1001051231y4c3f6ea9nb54334cea9d13c8 at mail.gmail.com>,
at 15:31:50 on Tue, 5 Jan 2010, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> writes

>Net Neutrality simply means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents
>Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web
>content based on its source, ownership or destination.

Isn't it also to do with discriminating traffic depending on whether
you've been paid to give a better QoS to one kind of traffic over
another?

And don't some IPSs deliberately give priority to VoIP traffic - and if
true, is that something to be frowned upon?

Edge caching of some content compared to others might also be regarded
as giving it "unfair" priority (why don't they edge-cache all traffic),
but I hardly think that banning edge-caching is desirable.

And most obviously, they speed up or slow down traffic depending on
whether the subscriber has a 1Mbit, 2Mbit etc tail from his local POP,
simply because of the capacity of that tail (to "its destination", the
subscriber).

ps I'm not saying that some sort of "Net Neutrality" in the core is a
good or bad thing, just that definitions need to be very carefully
written.
--
Roland Perry
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