Comments on: Don’t Invest In DPI Until Net Neutrality Has Been Resolved http://blog.proceranetworks.com/2010/01/25/don%e2%80%99t-invest-in-dpi-until-net-neutrality-has-been-resolved/ Procera Network's Blog Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:01:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Uwe Wagner http://blog.proceranetworks.com/2010/01/25/don%e2%80%99t-invest-in-dpi-until-net-neutrality-has-been-resolved/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Uwe Wagner Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:55:37 +0000 http://blog.proceranetworks.com/?p=61#comment-19 World Wide Web (WWW) inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee puts the problem like this: [...] "Net neutrality is this: ------------------ If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level. That’s all. It’s up to the ISPs tomake sure they interoperate so that that happens. Net Neutrality is NOT asking for the Internet for free. Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have, and we always will. There have been suggestions that we don’t need legislation because we haven’t had it. These are nonsense, because in fact we have had net neutrality in the past – it is only recently that real explicit threats have occurred. In short, net neutrality is about the rules of the road for Internet users, and about the relationship between the owners of those roads and the users." [...] Reference: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144 There is a very interesting document available as pdf called Net Neutrality - Towards a Co-regulatory Solution written by CHRISTOPHER T. MARSDEN. In my opinion DPI-Equipment is REQUIRED to solve the "problem" of Net-Neutrality. How to define rules for the roads of the internet if you have no idea about the traffic? Without DPI you would have to define "rules of thumb" mostly which may work or won't work opening the doors to arbitrariness. World Wide Web (WWW) inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee puts the problem like this:

[...]
“Net neutrality is this:
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If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level. That’s all.
It’s up to the ISPs tomake sure they interoperate so that that happens. Net Neutrality is NOT asking for the Internet for free. Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have,
and we always will.
There have been suggestions that we don’t need legislation because we haven’t had it. These are nonsense, because in fact we have had net neutrality in the past – it is only recently that real explicit threats have occurred.
In short, net neutrality is about the rules of the road for Internet users,
and about the relationship between the owners of those roads and the users.”
[...]
Reference: http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144

There is a very interesting document available as pdf called
Net Neutrality – Towards a Co-regulatory Solution written by CHRISTOPHER T. MARSDEN.

In my opinion DPI-Equipment is REQUIRED to solve the “problem” of Net-Neutrality. How to define rules for the roads of the internet if you have no idea about the traffic? Without DPI you would have to define “rules of thumb” mostly which may work or won’t work opening the doors to arbitrariness.

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