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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Ignoring something as technically meaningful as hard/soft/non real-time simply because political problems arise = bad tech.
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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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Yes and no. If you wanna use that baby as a political punching bag, expect it to get punched.
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If they win, the thing we are left with does not act like a network any more in terms of force multiplication.
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gtg now, but nice sparring clarified a few things for me :)
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no new technical innovation at the edge without paying a toll to every telco in the world.
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*shrug* no new technical innovation anywhere/anytime without someone figuring out how to weaponize it for mass murder either.
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We lose the possibility of decentralized systems, which in an age of cheap spying will kill millions. (Yes, a leap, but I can back it)
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That's a given. Every new tech kills millions. Can't think of a significant one that didn't, so no reason Internet will be 1st.
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What they are proposing is not technically better at all. It's revenue better now, with a promise it'll be technically better rsn
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and the promise of a better network comes at the expense of all other actually-happening innovation

