[OT] The Internet and Net Neutrality

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Ken's network neutrality bill:

Thou shalt not apply any QoS to your own packets that you don't apply
equally to packets from/to external origins; demonstrably malicious
packets may be discarded as seen fit, so long as the response and reason
is logged.  Furthermore, non-malicious traffic may not be blocked on
either a point-to-point or port-based basis.

Yes, there's weasel room (is being Slashdotted malicious?  Probably not by
intent -- but if it brings your network down, it would probably fit.), but
there's always weasel room in legislation; that is why there are judges
and juries.  Would that we could legislate w/o grey areas, but the world
don't work that way.

I worry a lot about the way the current legislation is worded -- "don't be
changin' bits" and stuff just leads to not being able to see the forest
for the trees.

$.02, etc.,

-Ken