[LINK] pipes or content

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> stephen  melbpc.org.au
> Sent: Monday, 2 November 2009 6:31 PM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] pipes or content
> 
> 
> As one expects, the Wall Street Journal is firmly 
> anti-gov-intervention, and all-praise-free-competition. 
> Despite that, this seems a worthy read.
> 
> The question is approx: should video-downloaders pay more 
> than emailers?
> 
> --
> NOVEMBER 1, 2009, 7:20 P.M. The Wall Street Journal
> 
> Will the Internet Survive Its 40th? 
> 
> Net neutrality battle pits broadband builders against content 
> providers.
> 
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487039329045745094
> 92652408418.
> html
> 
Certainly an interesting argument, however one that Australia have been
heretofore left out of because of course, with the Telstra domination of
overseas Internet access, no Australian ISP has ever been able to offer
cap free internet access successfully.

To me, this was always the attraction of P2P. (Not P2P file sharing of
copyrighted materials).
I refer to the potential of being able to obtain the article of interest
from todays front page SMH from other peers on the same branch of the
network stem as one is located on. 
An advanced form of cache peering, if you will.

The writers conclusion that big business might be preferable to
Government regulatory interference appears to have been disproven in
Australia since 1994.

The writer (WSJ article) concluded that unfair business practices merely
elicited more competition.

In Australia that competition (Optus) was very cleverly manipulated into
the two supplier duopoly.

So on the question of how Australia can ever actively join the Net
Neutrality debate, first we require Government to mandate that ALL
Australain CSP's MUST peer in each town they service with other CSP's. 

The financial reward enhancements to our economy will be immediate and
long lasting.

Therefore if the Rudd Governments NBN is offering true Australian wide
Net Neutrality by implementing forced MLPA peering regime; I for one
will be cheering.

With today's smartswitching routers and monitoring tools, there is not a
single ISP that would not benefit (in overseas bandwidth savings) from
an Australia wide Net Neutrality policy.

For that I would suggest that we need (brief) regulatory intervention.
The private sector have certainly failed in the delivery of this model.


TomK



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