Save the Internet from Mob 2.0 (ISPs slowing down the loading of websites that don’t pay them protection fees)
Monday, May 1st, 2006 at
3:15 pm
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What’s with the name “protection fee”. really… what or who do they protect? Although I would hate to see this pass through congress, I think even it were to pass, the results could not be that horrifying. Let’s say AT&T slowed down the sites that don’t pay them. I would say over 90% of website owners would not pay them. And AT&T customers would experience a significant overall slowdown of internet except a few big sites. I would immedeately switch to another provider. I can’t see how AT&T would implement this without loosing a big portion of its customers.
i can’t believe this. Too bad.
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I think I found a compromise that will satisfy the stated goals of both net neutrality sides. Even better, it should actually work, and work in the consumers’ interests. The idea is Tariff Rebate Passthrough — i.e., the ISP can charge by byte for QOS (but only by byte) and the information service provider (Google) can rebate the costs directly to the consumer (but only to the consumer). This works because it meets the need to pay for differentiated QOS, without letting the telecom companies’ control over that payment become actual control over content. I.e., all the good parts of net neutrality are preserved, but there’s no need to give something costly away for free.
The idea is spelled out at http://www.monashreport.com/2006/06/19/net-neutrality-tariff-rebate-passthrough/
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