The bogus "net neutrality" debate comes down to one fundamental question: are we going to allow the Internet to adapt to the needs of the future or are we going to strangle it according to the design of the past?
The Internet is under assault by new applications such as telephony and streaming video and new protocols such as Bit Torrent that suck up all available bandwidth. The old TCP-based congestion model doesn't work any more, and people expect better QoS for their phone calls than they can reasonably hope to get on a network dominated by Bit Torrent traffic. And the business model for the wholesale Internet has never been right.
The net neutrality sycophants with their backward-looking hippie fixation on the past are the real barrier to technical progress for the Net.
On the post: Why Is There So Little Honesty In The Net Neutrality Debate?
Change or no change?
The Internet is under assault by new applications such as telephony and streaming video and new protocols such as Bit Torrent that suck up all available bandwidth. The old TCP-based congestion model doesn't work any more, and people expect better QoS for their phone calls than they can reasonably hope to get on a network dominated by Bit Torrent traffic. And the business model for the wholesale Internet has never been right.
The net neutrality sycophants with their backward-looking hippie fixation on the past are the real barrier to technical progress for the Net.
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