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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (13046)	1/19/2006 9:23:55 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

re: There's an awful lot to those specifications to play with if someone wanted to seriously become pro-actively restrictive toward anyone who didn't want to pay up. You're referring to the industry standards I mentioned? Assuming yes, you're right and it isn't perfect, but I think it's as close as we can ever reasonably get, and it's infinitely better than the ambiguity of today where enforcement isn't possible because there's nothing to enforce. When you have bounds, you at least have a basis for a claim of mischief. That's the best plausible net neutrality scheme i believe (not counting the impossible ones like structural remedies) If you're pulling or pushing bits within the contractual bounds of the tier (a function the local computer can easily tally up and provide as evidence), you have a solid claim. This local "tally" function also lets you know when you're about to trip a breaker under your current load, and also informs you if you subscribe to an internet app that is going to trip the breaker for the tier (i.e. you need to bump your service up a tier). All this loosey-goosey junk about letting the FCC rigorously enforce complaints under today's ambiguity is empty rhetoric. There's nothing to enforce because "broadband" is currently anything the last mile provider wants it to be at any given instant. "We never guaranteed that, or anything else for that matter...no harm, no foul." The average-Joe would need packet-tracing software to even submit a claim to the FCC. Yeah, that's realistic... re: "...simply let traffic build up and not do anything about it." Yes! and that's exactly what the "internet dirt road" will turn into if we go to horizontal silos. It will be overextended, legally, and that forces everyone to pay extra to get the central-controlled silos.