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Net neutrality the battle

Www.battleforthenet.com/july12

Shall we fight and protect? Or police and shape?

The SDN overlords will QoS us into null0 once we go full implementation of our machine learning appliances. Then we as engineers won't have a choice. In my opinion its possible our stature as Network Engineers could be degraded in a future without net neutrality simply because of the negative perception associated with terms like "throttling" . People will see us as the corporate minions carrying out the will of our keepers.

There will always be preferred traffic, qos etc. But I believe we as NE should promote neutrality more than anyone else. And that's all I got to say about that.

Posted Jul 13, 2017, 2:37 AM UTC

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KantLockeMeInex-Cisco Geek•

I'm anti nn regulation... it's treating a symptom rather than the disease. The disease is the lack of competition in the residential marketplace. NN won't make Comcast a better ISP... it won't make them see their customers as people to be served rather than eyeballs to sell to content providers with demands of settlement peering.

I'd much rather the dialog be around fostering a competitive marketplace than wasting time with neutrality discussions. In a world of 20 residential ISPs, I'd bet most will be neutral and marketing it as a selling point if consumers actually cared.

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darksim905•

That's the wrong thing to tackle. It's impossible for other providers to pop up with how much it costs to do things.

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akuthia•

So as an inspiring IT professional and as an end user I feel like the choice should be up to the end point and not a middle man (which is the isp)

It is certainly within the rights of an organization to say that voip takes precedence over anything else. It shouldn't be up to the ip to be able to say that voip traffic from company x is more important than voip from company y

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Cache_FlowOPYou should've enabled port-security•

No replies? We're domed

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flatfalafel•

Yep... Domed. I mean I agree with you but time and time again I see this in our comments on r/networking; we're employees not activists. You can voice your opinions to your higher ups but politics is a dangerous game when it could mean absolutely nothing to your boss. They will perceive you as a thorn in their side bugging them about a pointless thing that doesn't affect your business. However if you work for an isp and say this you'll be perceived as the enemy. If you're really that concerned and your company is not aligned with your ethics, quit.

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