GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws

Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by notyourday on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:28AM (#15969743)

That's also not correct. If you, as the site owner, are still talking about ISPs or cloud hosting you are someone who is riding a bicycle on a shoulder of I-95 next to semis doing 80mph in 65 zones. You are, frankly, irrelevant. Also you do want to make sure that those semis use <blah>-bypass instead of clogging your highway.

The real issue is that we allow those ISPs to determine which semis are allowed to use a bypass. Public's ( even technologically advanced public's ) mixing of the two issues is why NN fight would continue to be lost.

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Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by djschnei on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:38AM (#15969842)

So, I guess, my question still stands, right? I'm assuming this bypass costs money for the ISPs to provide. Why is it evil for them to charge people to use it?

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Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by notyourday on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:58AM (#15970031)

I was responding to my parent, not your comment.

To address your point, I do not see an issue for ISPs charging for PNIs as long as those charges are uniform. If I, JoesFlix, have 100Gbit/sec traffic to Comcast and Comcast says "In order to access EP-Bypass, traffic has to come from AS that has more than 90Gbit/sec traffic to us" then Comcast should not be allowed to prevent me from accessing EP-Bypass. Congestion is bad for business. Sane PNI rules are easy:

0. there's some access fee ( typically it is actually - you must show up in X places - how you get there is your cost )

1. we get even number of PNIs.

2. i order and pay for half

3. you order and pay for half

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