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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Of course it is. Technical people accept it is a political problem too. Unfortunately political people don't reciprocate.
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(or rely on the goodwill of the players, which money has unfortunately entirely corroded.)
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Why do you assume I am condoning last-mile monopolists?
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This is what you have to do when you can't restructure the market so incentives actually line up.

