[opendtv] Re: FCC issues net neutrality rules in face of Congress and carriers
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:24:38 -0400
At 1:10 PM -0500 10/28/09, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Tom Barry wrote:
But what we are talking about in net neutrality is whether
the consumer also may get a larger or smaller pipe from the
consumer ISP depending upon which sender he is receiving
from. ... We would like to avoid that sort of
discriminatory behavior.
It might be a nice goal, but I don't think it will work. The devil
is in the details.
Take the case of FiOS. They are not 100 percent IPTV, but their VOD
offerings are all IPTV. Okay, so now you have some TV streams that
use Internet Protocols, so in theory at least, they would fall under
this net neutrality clause, if one existed.
So, are you saying that Verizon MUST NOT offer its VOD service this
way? Or that Verizon's VOD service will be limited to whatever bit
rate and QoS you have agreed to for your FiOS Internet access? Or
that all of the FiOS broadband customers MUST have access to the
FiOS VOD channels?
Or what about a telco that wants to offer all of its TV streams as
IPTV? All broadband customers MUST have access to the TV channels?
Geeeze Bert.
These are walled garden services using the same pipes that the cable
companies use for Internet services. Just because they use IP packet
data does not mean that they were delivered via the broadband
Internet.
Regards
Craig
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