[governance] NET NEUTRALITY AND MORE

[Roland Perry]

In message <D48B7CB2-B0FB-475E-8D7B-9E6887A232BF at ella.com>, at 14:39:54 
on Tue, 28 May 2013, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> writes

>I think we need unpack the term Net Neutrality and actually agree on what we are talking about.

That would be useful.

[I'll use the term "throttle" to mean "de-prioritise in the absence of 
any funds to make me change my mind".]

Is NN about a delivery network throttling content unless the distant 
content-provider comes up with some specific extra funding for their 
traffic (over and above the normal peering/no-settlement basis trickling 
down from their ISP to the delivery network).

Is NN about a delivery network throttling content unless the end user 
comes up with specific extra funding for content from that content 
provider.

Is NN about a delivery network throttling its competitor's content (when 
that network is a multi-play offer, with its own pay-per-view content).

Is NN about end users paying the same per byte for traffic delivered to 
a mobile phone as to a landline.

In NN about some networks deciding (with or without a court order) that 
some content sites should not be delivered at all (eg Pirate Bay).

Is NN about preventing the sending of email unless certain technical 
hoops are jumped through, that purport to fend off spammers.

Is NN a way of defining "end to end", and hence means "no carrier grade 
NAT, thanks".

Is NN a way for users to demand they get the same bytes-per-second 
throughput on their Internet connection at 8pm when all their fellow 
subscribers are saturating it with catch-up-TV, as they do at 8am when 
their fellow subscribers aren't.

[nb. Not all answers have to be "yes", and not all answers have to be 
"no"].
-- 
Roland Perry

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