[NNagain] "FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole"

[Mike Conlow]

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 at 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
>
> Frantisek (Frank) Borsik
>
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