On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:32:02 PST, Richard Bennett said:
ITIF is not opposed to network neutrality in principle, having released a paper on "A Third Way on Network Neutrality", http://www.itif.org/index.php?id=63.
All of four paragraphs, which don't in fact address what the provider is or is not providing to Joe Sixpack - point 1 says discriminatory plans are OK as long as the discriminatory are on display in the cellar of the ISP office, with no stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard. And points 2 and 3 are saying that this should all be overseen by the same agencies that oversaw the previous decade's massive buildout of fiber to the home that was financed by massive multi-billion dollar incentives. Oh wait, those billions got pocketed - if the massive fiber buildout had happened, we'd have so much bandwidth that neutrality wouldn't be an issue... But then, the Republicans keep saying they are not opposed to health care reform in principle either...