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

[Avri Doria]

On 5 Jan 2010, at 16:57, Roland Perry wrote:

>> 
>> 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?

i don't believe so.
that is differentiating a service offering from best effort service.

to avoid confusion i think the Net Neutrality (NN) must be restricted to issues of content, source or protocol port and not bandwidth.
(with the one exception that giving preference to network management or routing data necessary to run the network does not violate NN or is a permissible/necessary exception to NN)

this has been said many times before and i apologize for repeating it, but i think it has to be said every time someone tries to include bandwidth under the definitions of what constitutes a breech of NN.

bandwidth differentiation based on what someone can pay versus best effort for all, may still be wrong according to some judgements, but it is something different then NN.

a.

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