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[ NNSquad ] Re: Comcast's FCC Filing Today
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This policy means that no matter how abundant the capacity
is locally I can’t take advantage of the abundance. That’s a
serious public policy issue – why should local connectivity be limited for
any reason? It’s like being told that I can’t leave my driveway
because the highway downtown is congested. I don't want to belabor this but it's one more conflict
between the concept of telecom as path dependent and the concept of the
Internet as path-indifferent. -----Original Message----- Hi Bob. Some replies below and some general
comments following the IP post you linked to below. But first, I just wanted to clarify that the FCC filing
today was about our congestion management practices (present and future),
rather than the recently-clarified 250GB byte limit. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Bob Frankston
[mailto:Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com] Sent: Fri 9/19/2008 11:19 PM To: Livingood, Jason; 'Ted Koppel'; nnsquad@nnsquad.org Subject: RE: [ NNSquad ] Re: Comcast's FCC Filing Today No surprise that I have a basic problem with the very
idea that Comcast is engineering my connectivity with a subset of applications
in mind (http://www.frankston.com/?name=IPNeutralPurpose) among
others. [JL] I read that and noted you wrote "The important
point is that there is no need for you to make any assumptions about the
devices in my house or the protocols I use." [JL] That was actually one of the many design goals with
the new congestion management system. So I think we basically agree on
that. ;-) One question is whether the cap will apply to local
connectivity as well as distance. Is there a limit to how long I can watch a
broadcasts of local city hall meetings? I presume the answer is
"yes" and that it is a policy question. [JL] A byte is a byte, no matter how far it traveled,
what kind of data it is, who it is from, etc. Is there any technical reason why local traffic can't
escape the cap? Clearly the cap doesn't apply to traffic with my house
(except when I need to bridge from my Verizon connected devices to my Comcast
devices). [JL] Well, for one, we'd have to start looking at the
destination and source addresses, and that's something I think most people
would prefer to avoid. |