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Re: Japan Does It, Too

Tim Wu — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:07:45 -0000

I haven't investigated whether this is true.

But I personally have said many times that the Asian countries, while often possibly good models for deployment, are certainly not good role models for net neutrality; the glaring example is China.

Re: Japan Does It, Too

LarsG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:17:23 -0000

Only 40%? Any sensible ISP does "network management".

The trouble with your argument, though, is that you are confusing "network management" with "net neutrality".

Quoting wikipedia:

"Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems."

Net Neutrality: "[..] network free of restrictions on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, on the modes of communication allowed, that does not restrict content, sites, or platforms and where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams would be considered neutral by most observers."

Re: Japan Does It, Too

Seth Schoen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:41:31 -0000

Can we get some more specific terminology than "network management" out there?

I'm concerned that, in its way, this term is as generic as "transportation", "law enforcement", or "nutrition". (Or, to take an example where concerns about discrimination are very salient, "human resources" or "employment practices".)

Re: Japan Does It, Too

Tim Lee — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:29:47 -0000

Hance, maybe I'm missing something, but it looks to me like what Japan is doing is throttling traffic on an application-neutral manner based on a user's total bandwidth consumption. This is generally cited by network neutrality advocates as an alternative to application-focused filtering policies such as Comcast uses with regard to BitTorrent.