Re: [Internet Policy] root justification for net neutrality?

[Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 5, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5 June 2014 01:03, 6Advocate . <gobe.khanda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What about the developing world, wouldn't NN define more problems
towards ISP's, note increased traffic, also slow speeds being
experienced currently would worsen . It would be a drag and a half.

I don't follow.

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Please elaborate on what you see as the problems raised by NN. 

I think the issue 6Advocate refers to is the fear that in the developing world (where bandwidths are supposedly smaller and/or more expensive), one person who is downloading the entire season of Game of Thrones in Full HD could hog the entire bandwidth allocated to his village, and because of net neutrality, the ISP will not be able to throttle down that connection to make room for other people’s connections.

I think this is a non-issue because:

 (a) upstream bandwidth from the ISP to the Internet is usually not the big issue, even in the developing world. 

 (b) net neutrality does not necessarily mean packet-level FCFS on every router. Some QoS scheme imposing fairness between customers or between devices does not violate net neutrality.

Yoav