Net Neutrality - NO AGENDA POV with Adam Curry and John C Dvorak
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Date: 06/05/2014

The producer note:
Hi Adam,
I'm a network engineer: Cisco Certified Network Professional, etc. I know about Quality of Service, Traffic Shaping, Packet Queuing and Prioritization. I can explain how to implement them on routers and switches using Access Lists, Traffic Classes and Policy Maps, but I won't. It's boring. Suffice it to say, I know a little bit about this stuff. I didn't specialize in this area during my first 15 years in IT and I can confidently say that most people who don't specialize in it don't understand it at all because I was one of them. Being good with other techie things or knowing how to configure your home router don't even come close.
Anybody who suggests that "all bits should be treated equally" is deeply ignorant of networking and would be better served to take some classes rather than spouting such nonsense. If I continue their stupid analogy about roads, it would be like arguing that all traffic should drive the same speed, whether it's a semi or an ambulance or whether it's through a residential zone or on a highway. It's ignorant nonsense and I don't want to propagate the stupidity.
Traffic Shaping protocols exist for a reason. They were created to improve the performance of a network. Time sensitive traffic should be prioritized over traffic that is not. Bandwidth-hogging traffic should be rate limited and segmented from other traffic so that everything performs better. Failure to do so is negligent and wasteful and increases the amount of congestion. None of these protocols were developed to make someone's experience worse and to suggest that they will is ignorant nonsense.
All of these methods are standard practice in a corporate network. If I went to my bosses and insisted that all packets should be treated the same, I would be fired. If our CTO instituted a policy of net neutrality and proposed buying more hardware to solve the congestion instead, they would be fired. Anybody who argues that carriers and ISPs should not be allowed to use the protocols and best practices of network engineering and Traffic Shaping should be fired... or at least shut up until they know what they're talking about.
Sorry for the long rant but I had to say it to someone...
Thank you for your courage,
MikeD

Taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZOWvsMALk