[governance] [Fwd: The Not-So-Neutral Net]

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

Let's mean discrimination by the Norway guidelines:
http://www.npt.no/iKnowBase/Content/109604/Guidelines%20for%20network%20neutrality.pdf

One may notice [§ 3] that they do not preclude service differentiation
(distinct from discrimination) by volume, bandwidth, QoS, time of day,
wire/less, or other traffic characteristics.
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <AANLkTikD6_dhNVOAdSD4DCyRpAS_WjFPhXMS3EZ0Of1H at mail.gmail.com>,
> at 13:48:24 on Sun, 30 Jan 2011, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com>
> writes
>
>  Is MetroPCS (or AT&T, or Verizon, etc ..) operating in India ? Is India
>> gov supporting NN ? If so the Indian telecom authority could rule that
>> telecom operators in India may not discriminate services offered to Indian
>> consumers, or else they would not be allowed to offer international services
>> in India
>>
>
> Is that "no discrimination by content type", or "no discrimination by
> volume"?
>
> If a movie takes 1GB to deliver, would be allowed to say "sorry, no files
> above 0.5GB"[1] which would be a disguised ban on movies.
>
> [1] Or perhaps "unless you pay extra".
> --
> Roland Perry
>
>
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