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

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<93F4C2F3D19A03439EAC16D47C591DDE014DEFE496 at suex07-mbx-08.ad.syr.edu>, 
at 23:37:59 on Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> writes
>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.'

To the end user, a CDN is indistinguishable from their ISP; and 
especially so when the CDN has been deployed by the ISP to reduce the 
ISP's core bandwidth requirements, or to speed certain content to their 
customers at the ISP's expense.

But your comments neatly highlight the issue that I was bringing to the 
list: that there are considerable disagreements about what "net 
neutrality" means to different people.

Roland.

>________________________________________
>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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