[ NNSquad ] Re: Selected comments on the FCC case

[Vint Cerf <vint@google.com>]

Brett,

It seems to me that the remarks  below seem to be based on a mis- 
statement of the neutrality debate. I don't think anyone in the  
neutrality corner is saying you can't manage your network. They are  
not saying you cannot allow prioritization. They are not saying you  
can't charge more for higher capacity. They ARE saying that these  
services should be equally accessible to all application service  
providers, where ever situated and that providers of the underlying  
resource should not be able to use this situation to favor their own  
application traffic over that of other application providers. Users  
have a reasonable expectation that the broadband access they pay for  
should give non-discriminatory access to any application service  
provider. Note that this does not even say "equal access" since a  
remote application provider may itself have capacity limits about  
which the local broadband access provider can do nothing.

vint


On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Brett Glass wrote:

> For those who don't want to sort through the awkward Web interface  
> of the FCC's comment system, here are direct links to what I  
> believe are the most incisive comments defending the right of  
> network providers to manage their own networks and pointing out the  
> necessities of network management and P2P mitigation. Required  
> reading, IMHO, for any participant in the "Network Neutrality vs.  
> Network Nut-trality" debate, regardless of his or her stance on the  
> issues.
>
> Verizon
> http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi? 
> native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519841190
>
> Time Warner Cable
> http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi? 
> native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519841176
>
> CTIA
> http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi? 
> native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519841180
>
> Cisco
> http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi? 
> native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519558074
>
> AT&T
> http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi? 
> native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519841106
>
> and, of course, Comcast itself:
> http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi? 
> native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519840991
>
> --Brett Glass
>
>   [ In all honesty, I was initially tempted to reject this message and
>     suggest to Brett that if he pulled out the inflammatory "Network
>     Nut-trality" crack I'd run it.  But it's perhaps more  
> illuminating     to run the message as is.  So be it.
>
>                -- Lauren Weinstein
>                   NNSquad Moderator ]