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| Re: Engineer vs Agenda said by telcolackey  :Network Neutrality means different things to different people. It all depends on your agenda as to how you are presenting it. You're right, but so does the idea of Free Speech. Free Speech means different things to different people, but the concept has a solid well-understood root.
Network Neutrality is rooted in the traditional behavior of the network, which did not treat a packet any differently based on its source, destination, or contents to determine precedence over other packets.
Expand that thought and you get the more famous Network Neutrality principles that one person cannot pay to delay, degrade, or deny the service of someone else.
said by telcolackey :In a number of much more technical engineering forums (vs BBR) there is a fair amount of consensus that traffic priority/management of interactive vs non-interactive is the right thing to do in congested situations. How this is done is a different discussion. It's an important discussion, and it's been had dozens of times, and it comes up often. The IETF keeps coming up with the same answer: the end user (through his applications) can choose the priority however he likes. The ISP has the choice of whether and how much to respect those choices or not, but does not have the choice of imposing its own choices, instead.
RFC 2474 et. al. (covering DSCP) is an example.
The reason is clear -- we can't have 100 different versions of how the Internet works and expect applications to interoperate in that environment.
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