27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
11:23 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -0000, Brian Johnson said:
It is interesting that some people who fully understand that the Internet is composed of many networks run by people with different interests can say what is best for the Internet as a whole. How my organization (or yours or anybody else's) runs our network, is between us and our paying users.
The fact that a behavior is "best" for your network does in no way, shape, or form, say anything about what's best for the Internet as a whole. In fact, it's well-understood that there are entire classes of behaviors that are optimal for single actors, but fail when deployed widely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons