Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

Tue Nov 30 00:55:32 UTC 2010

http://blog.comcast.com/2010/11/comcast-comments-on-level-3.html

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dave CROCKER <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:

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> On 11/29/2010 2:40 PM, Rettke, Brian wrote:
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>> Essentially, the question is who has to pay for the infrastructure to
>> support
>> the bandwidth requirements of all of these new and booming streaming
>> ventures. I can understand both the side taken by Comcast, and the side of
>> the content provider, but I don't think it's as simple as the slogans
>> spewed
>> out regarding "Net Neutrality", which has become so misused and abused as
>> a
>> term that I don't think it has any credulous value remaining.
>>
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> I find it helpful to distinguish "participant neutrality" from "service
> neutrality".  The first says that you and I pay the same rate.  The second
> says the my email costs the same as my voip.
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> As described, it appears that Level3 is being singled out, which makes for
> participant non-neutrality.  On the other hand, if Comcast were charging
> itself for xfinity traffic, this might qualify as service non-neutrality
> (assuming there is a plausible meaning to "charging itself"...
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> d/
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>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net
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