The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:34:10 +0100
><5310953.CR43yg0bjK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Feds OK Fee for Priority Web Traffic
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing
>> | high-speed Internet practices, that it is opposed to "Net neutrality," the
>> | principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web
>> | user.
>> `----
>>
>> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070906/D8RG2J9O0.html
>
> That's one way to spin it. An alternative fashion is to
> allow payment of a fee to expedite traffic for certain
> users; presumably the model will be that a website provider
> using a certain carrier/provider can pay extra to said
> carrier/provider to increase bandwidth from his website
> to that carrier/provider's subscribers.
It doesn't work, though... not without 3-mode networking.
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