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In Net Neutrality, It's Jeffersonet Vs. Edisonet
PetManimal writes "Curt Monash has a middle way on the Net neutrality debate. He writes that the classic 'Jeffersonet' — which includes e-mail, instant messaging, much e-commerce, and most websites created in the first 13 or so years of the Web — is 'the greatest tool in human history to communicate research, teaching, news, and political ideas, or to let tiny businesses compete worldwide,' and cannot be compromised by a tiered Internet. On the other hand, a reliable, tiered scheme is required for what he calls the 'Edisonet' — which consists of 'communication-rich applications such as entertainment, gaming, telephony, telemedicine, teleteaching, or telemeetings of all kinds.' Commenting on Monash's proposal, blogger Richi Jennings points to a lack of investment in Internet infrastructure and IPv6 technologies at the root of the problem: '...if an application writer makes assumptions that ignore realities such as the speed of light or temporary congestion, their application's going to behave badly. But no premium QoS in the world is going to help that. My sense is still that the ISPs that are complaining about net neutrality are simply being greedy and don't want to invest money to cope with the growth in usage.'"
...Jefferson was a hit with the ladies. Obviously his solution must be superior.
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Greed is the root of these problems- eliminate it and everyone will do better (including the ISPs!)
I'm still waiting to see "Less-filling-net" vs "Tastes-Great-net"
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And if they use the term, 'series of tubes', they should be shot.
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Hahahahahaha, fair. No really, fair. It's not fair. It's business, it is called a competitive edge. It works like this:
your money ----> ISPS (---- money from websites for services
Or in Slashdot terms:
1. Charge customers for services
2. Charge service providers for customers
3. Make this legal???
4. Profit!
Imagine that you getting internet it is process, like baking a cake. The websites are the ingredients in your cake, and the bakers are the ISP. You paying for a internet and downloading content is like having the cake. Then, ISPs charge individual sites for the right to be purchased (eaten/consumed). In a very real sense, this is them having the cake AND EATING IT TOO.
That depends. If they say "the internet is going down a series of tubes", we should laugh and agree.
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"