<div dir="ltr">OK, so I will bite the bullet! I have invited Ajit Pai and Martin Geddes to join us here and let's see if they still have some time and/or even stomach for current round of NN discussion.<div><br></div><div>Anyway, here is my bullet.<i> I will argue with Martin, that - Net Neutrality CAN'T be implemented: </i></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b>Whilst people argue over the virtues of net neutrality as a regulatory policy, computer science tells us regulatory implementation is a fool’s errand.</b><br>Suppose for a moment that you are the victim of a wicked ISP that engages in disallowed “throttling” under a “neutral” regime for Internet access. You like to access streaming media from a particular “over the top” service provider. By coincidence, the performance of your favoured application drops at the same time your ISP launches a rival content service of its own.<br>You then complain to the regulator, who investigates. She finds that your ISP did indeed change their traffic management settings right at the point that the “throttling” began. A swathe of routes, including the one to your preferred “over the top” application, have been given a different packet scheduling and routing treatment.<br>It seems like an open-and-shut case of “throttling” resulting in a disallowed “neutrality violation”. Or is it?<br><b>Here’s why the regulator’s enforcement order will <u>never</u> survive the resulting court case and expert witness scrutiny:</b></blockquote><div> </div></div><div><a href="https://www.martingeddes.com/one-reason-net-neutrality-cant-implemented/"><i>https://www.martingeddes.com/one-reason-net-neutrality-cant-implemented/</i></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope you will read the link ^^ before jumping to Martin's conclusion, but still, here it is:</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So if not “neutrality”, then what else?<br><b>The <u>only</u> option is to focus on the end-to-end service quality</b>. The local traffic management is an <u>irrelevance</u> and complete distraction. Terms like “throttling” are technically meaningless. The <a href="http://martingeddes.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f105fd56904428bca9da44a82&id=732dff72e5&e=8d627b38dd" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color:rgb(0,85,165);text-decoration:none">lawgeneers</a> who have written articles and books saying otherwise are unconsciously incompetent at computer science.<br><b>We computer scientists call this viable alternative “end-to-end” approach a “quality floor”</b>. The good news is that we now have a <a href="http://martingeddes.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f105fd56904428bca9da44a82&id=b5afe64690&e=8d627b38dd" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color:rgb(0,85,165);text-decoration:none">practical means to measure it</a> and <a href="http://martingeddes.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f105fd56904428bca9da44a82&id=ea6122c7a8&e=8d627b38dd" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color:rgb(0,85,165);text-decoration:none">hard science</a> to model it.<br>Maybe we should consciously and competently try it?</blockquote><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frank<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Skype: casioa5302ca<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 7:15 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am pleased to see over 100 people have signed up for this list<br>
already. I am not really planning on "activating" this list until<br>
tuesday or so, after a few more people I have reached out to sign up<br>
(or not).<br>
<br>
I would like y´all to seek out people with differing opinions and<br>
background, in the hope that one day, we can shed more light than heat<br>
about the science and technologies that "govern" the internet, to<br>
those that wish to regulate it. In the short term, I would like enough<br>
of us to agree on an open letter, or NPRM filing,and to put out a<br>
press release(s), in the hope that this time, the nn and title ii<br>
discussion is more about real, than imagined, internet issues. [1]<br>
<br>
I am basically planning to move the enormous discussion from over<br>
here, titled "network neutrality back in the news":<br>
<br>
<a href="https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/starlink/2023-September/thread.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/starlink/2023-September/thread.html</a><br>
<br>
to here. I expect that we are going to be doing this discussion for a<br>
long time, and many more issues besides my short term ones will be<br>
discussed. I hope that we can cleanly isolate technical issues from<br>
political ones, in particular, and remain civil, and factual, and<br>
avoid hyperbole.<br>
<br>
Since the FCC announcement of a proposed NPRM as of Oct 19th... my own<br>
initial impetus was to establish why the NN debate first started in<br>
2005, and the conflict between the legal idea of "common carriage" vs<br>
what the internet was actually capable of in mixing voip and<br>
bittorrent, in<br>
"The Bufferbloat vs Bittorrent vs Voip" phase. Jim Gettys, myself, and<br>
Jason Livinggood have weighed in on their stories on linkedin,<br>
twitter, and elsewhere.<br>
<br>
There was a second phase, somewhat triggered by netflix, that Jonathan<br>
Morton summarized in that thread, ending in the first establishment of<br>
some title ii rules in 2015.<br>
<br>
The third phase was when title ii was rescinded... and all that has<br>
happened since.<br>
<br>
I, for one, am fiercely proud about how our tech community rose to<br>
meet the challenge of covid, and how, for example, videoconferencing<br>
mostly just worked for so many, after a postage stamp sized start in<br>
2012[2]. The oh-too-faint-praise for that magnificent effort from<br>
higher levels rankles me greatly, but I will try to get it under<br>
control.<br>
<br>
And this fourth phase, opening in a few weeks, is more, I think about<br>
privacy and power than all the other phases, and harmonization with EU<br>
legislation, perhaps. What is on the table for the industry and<br>
internet is presently unknown.<br>
<br>
So here we "NN-again". Lay your issues out!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] I have only had one fight with the FCC. Won it handily:<br>
<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2993112/vint-cerf-and-260-experts-give-fcc-a-plan-to-secure-wi-fi-routers.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.computerworld.com/article/2993112/vint-cerf-and-260-experts-give-fcc-a-plan-to-secure-wi-fi-routers.html</a><br>
In this case this is not so much a fight, I hope, but a collaborative<br>
effort towards a better, faster, lower latency, and more secure,<br>
internet for everyone.<br>
<br>
[2] <a href="https://archive.org/details/video1_20191129" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/video1_20191129</a><br>
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Oct 30: <a href="https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html</a><br>
Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos<br>
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