Re: Why I am Opposed to Net Neutrality

3. All traffic isn't created equal. An e-mail doesn't have the same
> service requirements as a VOIP call. An X-ray of a heart patient > should have priority over a Britney Spears video. Corporate networks > manage traffic that way, and at some point there has to be some > intelligence added to public Internet infrastructure between the end > points. Net neutrality requirements mean all traffic is created > equal. You can debate over who makes the call over what traffic gets > priority, but to pretend all traffic is equal doesn't hold up.

When you do this, what you have isn't the internet any more.

The beauty and the failing of the net is that everyone is equal and every device is treated like every other device. Unfortunately this is not a good thing to carry realtime data.

There have been attempts to do what you describe with QoS management, where some kinds of traffic gets treated differently than other kinds of traffic. In general, these things don't work very well, because the underlying protocol isn't designed for it.

If you want a largescale nationwide network to handle realtime data like VOIP, video traffic, and high resolution X-rays at the same time, it ought to be built very differently than the Internet. Because the Internet just isn't built for that. Sorry.

--scott

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