Thought: right way to bill for packets is flat fee/packet/mile minus demurrage per unit delay/mile added by a carrier. cc:
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Customers have already paid for the data, which makes peering a cost of doing business for the ISP.
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Ways to keep that consumer UX the same while fixing the backend logistics, which sounds nuttier the more I understand it.
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It's a mixed technical-political issue being swarmed by non-techies who want it to be a purely left-political cause célèbre
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No, the people who are fighting most strongly for network neutrality are the people who architected the system originally.
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they define/understand it differently from the people piling on
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Nope, not in my experience or what I've read. Maybe you're seeing a different net neutrality movement than I am.
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We most certainly are. I am primarily ignoring the politics and trying to understand the actual engineering problem...
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But that people are dangerously trivializing real technical issues.
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..actually, it pretty much was. The Net-heads conclusively won in the 80's, and when ATM died, that should have been the end of it.
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lol! There's at least a half-dozen proposals out there for alt architectures with diff properties. Engineering is NEVER game over
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But it turns out there's no end to the technical arguments you can make up for a few billion monopoly dollars.

