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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Which has people doing the equivalent of trying to legislate pi=3 type regulatory regimes. Or repeal law of gravity.
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(or rely on the goodwill of the players, which money has unfortunately entirely corroded.)
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The fact that they are *able* to adopt a monopoly position and blackmail is itself a cons. of tech issues.
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The Internet has dealt quite well without hard-scheduled QoS for 40 years, despite the continued squawking of telco engineers.
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And massive rise in video, coming boom in IoT/VR/driverless cars/telesurgery doesn't merit reconsideration?
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And this ignores all of the other much more real innovation costs of not having an open Internet to "enable scheduling innovation"
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So?... we'll find a way through. iOS pioneered very non-neutral walled garden app store, then Android happened, more open will too
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Soft QoS does just fine here & it's not clear if the telcos can deliver hard QoS at inet scale anyway, because smart cores don't scale.

