NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Is network unneutrality necessarily bad?
Part of the problem is that I don't see all acts of network unneutral behavior as necessarily bad. For example, take VOIP or any other realtime application (eg, online games). These applications all share a property of fairly low data rates but very high realtime needs. So why should (if I'm willing to pay) this traffic not receive better than best effort service. Likewise, why shouldn't an ISP give Bittorrent and similar bulk-transfer products worse-than-best-effort? These applications are obviously noninteractive, high data rate transfers, so why should my SSH connection have to compete with my neighbor downloading a big DVD? How does one draw the line between legitimate traffic shaping and outright abuses (eg, FIN-flooding seeders, HTTP add-injection, penalizing a competitor's VOIP service since the network operator is also the telephone company)? _______________________________________________ NNSquad mailing list information: http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad