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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (31798)	10/22/2009 6:05:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 46821

FAC, just trying to read that net neutrality bureaucratese made me feel queasy. Government departments, rules, laws, regulations and permits are already the biggest problem by far that I face in my daily life. What amazes me is that people go on voting for more of the same every election, and more of it. They scoff at libertarianz.org.nz and act.org.nz then whine about the fact that they get what they voted for, good and hard!! Similarly, Ron Paul was largely ignored, but people whine about getting what they voted for. I suppose they would say they didn't vote for what they are getting - they voted to be getting the loot, but the government is giving it to somebody else instead. Well, that's not really surprising. After several elections, and a few centuries, you'd think they'd start to figure it out. But no, they go on like a flock of turkeys voting for an extra Thanksgiving and a bonus Xmas. Mqurice

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (31798)	10/23/2009 8:01:24 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Frank, This is very scary stuff, Application-specific ITMP's are bad, economic ITMP's are good and bureaucrats and lawyers get involved. The truth is this will create a raw bandwidth race to the bottom environment and integrated providers such as cable companies who provide entertainment, voice and internet, might choose to drop the internet - its the least profitable. This would void the oversight. In a fully hulu'ed world - raw bandwidth might work. You could see a cable company spinning off content and telephony. It would be just a consumer ISP. It might offer services to its spin-offs, just like it would to Vonage etc. But what is the business model for the currently highly profitable entertainment business? Hulu and much of its brethren are free. With no subscribers - who pays the media companies that create the content? I am sure solutions can be found - but Cox, Comcast and Time Warner pay the networks and studio's a lot to use their programming (on a per subscriber basis). I am surprised the industry hasn't sorted out they will get the shaft in the short term. When it comes to ITMP's - I tell providers worldwide that real neutrality would be technology and economic based. Differentiating Voice and Video because of latency and jitter or degrading service if a user exceeds their agreed contract. The slippery slope there is differentiating your own voice and video from a competitors (that I get). The economic is straightforward, but didn't someone just claim a 'right' to universal broadband? Yuck! John