Reply to post: Re: Stop, read it again.

Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee calls for net neutrality in Europe

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Re: Stop, read it again.

"He doesn't say that bulk services should trump real time. His argument is that "Economic motivations" should not impact a packets network traversal."

Fine, my economic motivation will then simply lead me to get my packets delivered more reliably than my rivals by using private network overlays. If I plug my server straight into an ISP's edge router it doesn't matter how fairly the public Internet packets are treated, I still win.

Net neutrality doesn't achieve what people think it will. There's a chance it could actually make things worse - we'll see a flight by established providers to private overlays, followed by reduced investment in the public Internet because all the stuff customers want is coming down the private route.

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