I'm sure this was a difficult thing to write a regulation on. I'm glad the FCC took a swing. Here's why:

If the Internet community wants to [continue] to develop technologies where applications (or users) can signal a need for low latency treatment and other networks in the path can honor that need -- great.

But one of the networks in the chain -- the access network -- making the determination of what types of traffic get the low latency treatment, in my personal opinion is reasonably interpreted as throttling.

I think it's also worth noting that these rules only apply to last-mile mass-market ISP plans. And any network is still free to offer "network slicing" as an enterprise offering, which I'm sure they will.

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM Frantisek Borsik via Nnagain <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

"Net neutrality proponents argued that these separate lanes for different kinds of traffic would degrade performance of traffic that isn't favored. The final FCC order released yesterday addresses that complaint.

"We clarify that a BIAS [Broadband Internet Access Service] provider's decision to speed up 'on the basis of Internet content, applications, or services' would 'impair or degrade' other content, applications, or services which are not given the same treatment," the FCC's final order said.

The "impair or degrade" clarification means that speeding up is banned because the no-throttling rule says that ISPs "shall not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/fcc-explicitly-prohibits-fast-lanes-closing-possible-net-neutrality-loophole/

All the best,

Frank
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