NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Neutrality in Perspective
I said ownership of the physical medium -- that means that no one is inspecting my bits or usage. There should be nothing to manage or legislate. It is the embodiment of the end-to-end constraint because there are no service providers -- just operators that assist in lighting up pieces of the transport which you can navigate. If don't have the capacity you want for a particular application then you need to figure out what you can do with what is available or, better, just go and improve your radios and the way you use fiber and copper or add some more fiber and copper and radios. I don't know what rabid means if we're not talking about dogs and there are no service providers between me and the physical layer. More about it in http://www.frankston.com/?name=OurCFR. It's not competition with the carriers -- it's redefining the problem as independence. The advantage over NN is that it provides equal opportunity rather than guaranteeing equal results. Everyone should have the opportunity to improve on what they own. If there's interest I can go into more detail but you can look at http://www.frankston.com/?Name=OurInternet and http://www.frankston.com/?name=SATNFSM and other essays. We mustn't fall victim to scarcity-preserving policies. This includes trying to get arbitrary services to work despite under-provisioning. -----Original Message----- From: Brett Glass [mailto:nnsquad@brettglass.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 18:24 To: Bob Frankston; 'Lauren Weinstein'; nnsquad@nnsquad.org Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] Re: Neutrality in Perspective At 02:42 PM 11/13/2007, Bob Frankston wrote: >Ultimately the solution is local ownership of local (physical) >infrastructure and a focus on the First Square Mile (FSM) rather >than the First (or Last) mile access to the emergent property we >call "The Internet" or, worse, "Internet". That's exactly what small, local ISPs such as LARIAT represent, Bob: local, responsive, consumer-friendly ownership of local physical infrastructure. But if you try to micromanage and legislate how we do business without having been in the trenches, you risk destroying us and leaving behind the duopoly you seem to dislike. Tactics that won't put a scratch on the hides of the huge behemoths such as Comcast and Verizon will put us right out of business. In fact, I could just see those behemoths pushing through the sort of regulation you propose for their competitors (like us) but getting exemptions for themselves. What a great anti-competitive move: Throw the little guys in the pit to be devoured by the rabid end-to-endians. Don't laugh; it's a likely outcome of the move toward so-called "network neutrality" legislation. --Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET