OT: "network neutrality" and the internet

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>There are bills up for vote in the U.S. Congress concerning what is known
>as "network neutrality" on the internet.  Basically, "network neutrality"
>means that all network traffic is treated equally.  You can't, for example,
>give traffic from google.com higher precedence than yahoo.com simply
>because Google pays you more.  The bills up for vote would allow the
>companies running the backbones of the net to charge for "premium"
>services, effectively saying "we'll make sure your packets get through
>when usage is high, even if it means throwing out other 'non-premium'
>traffic".

My server, my rules.

How would the thieves at the National Joke Factory (one of Will
Rogers' terms for the U.S. house and Senate) deal with qualtity
of service issues (giving different priorties to packets based on
the service -- voice over IP has higher priority than file
transfers)?

...
>Note, however, that most "internet petitions", like the one in the sample
>e-mail on snopes, are toothless.  Of course, that doesn't mean you can't
>use other methods to let your congressmen know your stand on the issue,
>whichever side that may be.

Getting the congress critters to actually read the bills they
vote on would be a miracle, much less expecting them understand
the issues in the bills.

Bill
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