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

[Dave Taht]

I have not read this but I am pretty sure it does not ban fair queuing.

On Friday, May 10, 2024, Mike Conlow via Nnagain <
nnagain at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> 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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