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Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality
penciling_in writes "CircleID has a post by Richard Bennett, one of the panelists in the recent Innovation forum on open access and net neutrality — where Google announced their upcoming throttling detector. From the article: 'My name is Richard Bennett and I'm a network engineer. I've built networking products for 30 years and contributed to a dozen networking standards, including Ethernet and Wi-Fi. I was one of the witnesses at the FCC hearing at Harvard, and I wrote one of the dueling Op-Ed's on net neutrality that ran in the Mercury News the day of the Stanford hearing. I'm opposed to net neutrality regulations because they foreclose some engineering options that we're going to need for the Internet to become the one true general-purpose network that links all of us to each other, connects all our devices to all our information, and makes the world a better place. Let me explain ...' This article is great insight for anyone for or against net neutrality."
Like all self professing experts he's a well paid off self professing expert.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
No. Clearly the point is that waiting a few years has caused many/some/zero problems -- depends on the answers to the question.
If there's no problem so far then waiting a few more years might not hurt. And we could have freedom until then and ISPs and taxpayers and governments could use their resources to do something besides maintaining and complying with a regulatory regime.