gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
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Re: A rational debate on Comcast traffic management
said by TKJunkMail  :said by gaforces :said by Richard B :» blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=852Finally somebody get it right also more I hear about it the more I feel those who complain do not know how does a network operates. This is more doublespeak, using flaws in shared network technology as an excuse. The end result is still the same, they blocked p2p, which is a violation of network neutrality policys as accepted by the FCC. The FCC has made no rulings or held hearings or anything else. And they didn't BLOCK anything. It's nice to know you sit on the FCC with all your inside knowledge.{/sarcasm} All ye have to do is be able to read.
"In 2003 Tim Wu published and popularized a proposal for a net neutrality rule, in his paper "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination."[14] The paper considered Network Neutrality in terms of neutrality between applications, as well as neutrality between data and QOS sensitive traffic, and proposed some legislation to potentially deal with these issues. In early 2005 the FCC enforced network neutrality principles in a documented case of abuse involving Madison River Communications, a small DSL provider that briefly blocked VoIP service.
In 2005, the FCC adopted a policy statement stating its adherence to four principles of network neutrality. In November 2005 Edward Whitacre, Jr. then CEO of SBC stated 'there's going to have to be some mechanism for these [Internet upstarts] who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using', and that 'The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment';[15] sparking a furious debate. SBC spokesman Michael Balmoris said that Whitacre was misinterpreted and his comments only referred to new tiered services.[16]
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