[Bloat] [Rpm] [LibreQoS] [Starlink] net neutrality back in the news

[Frantisek Borsik]

>
> > They want something that can provide a domination service within their
> own walled gardens.
> Also not correct. And last time I checked the balance sheets of companies
> in these sectors - *video streaming services were losing money while
> provision of internet services were financially healthy. *


Indeed, Jason:
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html


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Frank

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 5:53 PM dan via Rpm <rpm at lists.bufferbloat.net>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 7:17 AM Livingood, Jason via LibreQoS <
> libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
>> On 9/29/23, 00:54, "Jonathan Morton" <chromatix99 at gmail.com <mailto:
>> chromatix99 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > Some ISPs began to actively degrade Netflix traffic, in particular by
>> refusing to provision adequate peering capacity at the nodes through which
>> Netflix traffic predominated
>>
>> That is not true and really not worth re-litigating here.
>>
>> > NN regulations forced ISPs to carry Netflix traffic with reasonable
>> levels of service, even though they didn't want to for purely selfish and
>> greedy commercial reasons.
>>
>> NN regulations played no role whatsoever in the resolution of that
>> conflict - a business arrangement was reached, just as it was in the SK
>> Telecom example recently:
>> https://about.netflix.com/en/news/sk-telecom-sk-broadband-and-netflix-establish-strategic-partnership-to
>>
>> > ISPs behind L4S actively do not want a technology that works end-to-end
>> over the general Internet.
>>
>> That's simply not true. As someone running an L4S field trial right now -
>> we want the technology to get the widest possible deployment and be fully
>> end-to-end. Why else would there be so much effort to ensure that ECN and
>> DSCP marks can traverse network domain boundaries for example? Why else
>> would there be strong app developer interest? What evidence do you have to
>> show that anyone working on L4S want to create a walled garden? If
>> anything, it seems the opposite of 5G network slicing, which seems to me
>> personally to be another 3GPP run at walled garden stuff (like IMS).
>> Ultimately it is like a lot of other IETF work -- it is an interesting
>> technology and we'll have to see whether it gets good adoption - the
>> 'market' will decide.
>>
>> > They want something that can provide a domination service within their
>> own walled gardens.
>>
>> Also not correct. And last time I checked the balance sheets of companies
>> in these sectors - video streaming services were losing money while
>> provision of internet services were financially healthy.
>>
>> JL
>>
>>
>>
> I think this stuff degrades into conspiracy theory often enough.  While I
> don't discount the possibility of collusion, I don't give these
> people/groups credit enough to pull of a mass scale conspiracy either....
> If netflix is jammed down to small of a pipe at an ISP, that's more likely
> (IMO...) disorganization or incompetence or disinterest over conspiracy.
>  I feel the same about government in general...
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