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[ NNSquad ] Mark Cuban and NN
As you might expect, I view Mark Cuban's blog entry referenced below
as a "sure, vote for him if you want the country to go to hell" sort
of endorsement. The false bogeyman that "network neutrality requires
all bits to be treated equally" is long since discredited, and I'm not
surprised to see Mark dragging it out again. After all, this is the
same fellow who called for ISPs to block P2P traffic a couple of years
ago ("Confused Billionaire Urges Blocking of Internet P2P Content" -
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000329.html ).
--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator
----- Forwarded message from Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com> -----
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:26:45 -0400
From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
Subject: Mark Cuban and NN
http://blogmaverick.com/2009/08/03/why-tv-networks-should-support-net-neutra
lity/
Alas, it's a traditionalist view - the idea that we need to give special
content priority because otherwise bits will collide and slow down.
I don't want to belabor this so I'll be very brief since these issues recur
in the policy debates so it's worth reminder people this "filling up the
Internet" fallacious argument:
. It presumes that there isn't and cannot be enough capacity. For
local traffic we already allocate huge capacity in broadcast mode and only a
smidgen is actually used. If you get that same portion statistically with IP
you'd get your video.
. It doesn't take into account the idea that you don't have to use
standard broadcast streams - there many innovative approaches which can do
more than current TV if we didn't lock down everything into the current
broadcast grid. His Mavericks, for example, would have multiple streams.
. It presumes isochronous delivery and the lock stop grid of today's
TV is really the best we can do.
. It presumes that TV is indeed the most important content bar none.
The biggest point, of course, is the current providers have every incentive
to do a bad job at sharing their capacity and the biggest lesson of Moore's
law is that if you align incentives and decouple conflicting agendas we get
the hyper growth that has made VoIP "just work".
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