The engineer’s case against Net Neutrality.
If you’ve followed the occasionally surreal, and often hysterical debate around ‘Net Neutrality’ on US blogs and discussion forums, you may have encountered Richard Bennett. The veteran engineer played a role in the design of the internet we use today, and helped shaped Wi-Fi. He’s also been blogging for a decade. And he doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
Bennett argues that the measures proposed to ’save’ the internet, which in many cases are sincerely held, could hasten its demise. Network congestion is familiar to anyone’s whose left a BitTorrent client running at home, and it’s the popularity of such new applications that makes better network management an imperative if we expect VoIP to work well. The problem, he says, is that many of the drafts proposed to ensure ‘Net Neutrality’ would prohibit such network management, and leave VoIP and video struggling.
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