After the FCC voted to "sanction" Comcast earlier this month for throttling P2P traffic, the network neutrality debate thankfully quieted down. Apparently unhappy with this tranquil lull in hyperbole, executives from several major ISPs met in Aspen this week at a think tank event to hint that network neutrality was both an "absurd" and "paranoid" argument. A theme throughout the event seems to be that network management is an engineering problem, best left alone by politicians, consumer groups, lobbyists and the unwashed masses:In fact, it was engineers (just not theirs) who discovered that Comcast, instead of specifically and intelligently targeting congestion, was using a sledgehammer to manage P2P by throttling all users regardless of consumption -- and then lying about it. It was the nation's largest ISPs who spent millions on lobbyists who don't understand technology and whom distort the issue for political effect -- who more than anyone contributed to the "paranoia." Complaining about lobbyist involvement seems a little disingenuous.