On 20/Mar/20 19:38, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
+100.
In all the decades that I've been here (on the 'nets), the saddest change I've seen is the lack of responsibility on the part of people who have, by virtue of their positions, been given incredible power. This is the time for those people to step up and (try to) do the right thing.
None of us know what's going to be needed. How could we? We could guess, and we *are* guessing, but we don't really know because we're sailing off the edge of the map now.
In those circumstances, the virtue of frugality -- a sensible thing at any time -- now becomes a necessity. Every single one of us should be doing whatever we can to prepare for the unknown, and conserving resources is one part of that.
"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after will seem inadequate." --- Michael Leavitt, former HHS Secretary
As I write this, doctors and nurses are working without PPE, risking their own wellbeing to try to save patients. We're not being asked to do anything like that. Hopefully we still have enough left to rise to the comparatively minor challenge in front of us.
All I'm saying is at the moment, there is no empirical information to suggest that Netflix will break what's left of the Internet. Nor is there any empirical information suggesting that singling them out will help keep it going. If we go down this path, who's to say which service provider will or won't be "targeted" next at the whim of some command & control policy maker? Is it a rabbit hole whose top-soil we want to uncover? If/when the network starts to take a hit, network operators will respond. But if there is any operator on this list who is willing to raise their hands and say, "Netflix is breaking my network", uncongested, free-flowing beer on me when we all come out from the bunkers. Mark.