@aral I challenge you to come up with a technical definition of 'neutral'.
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@martingeddes Neutral: not favouring one or the other. No special treatment. It’s not about a tech spec, it’s about policy. -
@aral Unfortunately that seductive rhetorical belief does not map onto a meaningful technical reality. Stochastic system, emergent outcome.
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@aral Aral, it's technical nonsense. There's no such thing as a "neutral" network. Which applications should fail in what order in overload? -
@martingeddes It’s not about failover order, it’s about whether or not we have fast/slow lanes. -
@aral That's the same thing! If I want my sign language video app to not fail as load increases, I need more timeliness and others less. -
@martingeddes@aral Yes that type of network control is important, but that should be your (the user's) choice, not the ISP's, right? -
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@martingeddes@aral There's neither a technical requirement nor an advantage (well, to us) for telcos to have control of your video quality.
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@aral It's the same as saying "i'm mostly Vegan… " -
@Chrisedmo@aral or "we have a mostly racism-free society" (I must admit it's still better than apartheid, but not acceptable either)
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