[Mesh] Infographic

[John]

Yeah I agree unmetered pricing is a bane upon the system.  If nothing 
else, if people payed per byte they'd jump at every opportunity to 
connect to a mesh whenever possible.  (I often wonder how people would 
drive if they could see their mileage in dollars, real time.)

This infographic is aimed at a particular set of people who are 
concerned with a particular issue.  The title could just as easily have 
been 'Want Net Robustness?'  In fact I may rehash the same art for 
different audiences.

To me, net neutrality is just a specific case of citizens lacking 
control over a resource upon which they depend.


On 08/15/2017 07:18 PM, Stuart Gathman wrote:
> On 08/15/2017 05:48 PM, John wrote:
>> Also I had some downtime on a Windows machine and made some propaganda
>> (same image in two formats):
>>
>> https://cityofclay.000webhostapp.com/CMN.svg
> On a political note, I see [lack of] net neutrality as a side effect of
> the perverse incentives inherent in unmetered pricing of internet
> services.  When you are paying more for more gigabytes transferred, a
> greedy (as required by law) telco is going to do all they can to *not*
> slow you down so you can pay them more.  When your usage is unmetered,
> the greedy telco will try to cram as many customers on the same
> equipment as possible, and try to make high bandwidth content providers
> pay part of the cost - i.e. the "net neutrality" issue.
>
> It is easy to make net neutrality issues go away with centralized ISPs
> also - just get a tiered, or even a more finely grained pay for usage
> plan.  There are many other drawbacks to centralized ISPs (e.g. makes
> "wiretapping" without a warrant way too easy) - but "net neutrality" is
> only a problem with unmetered pricing.
>
> Note that unmetered pricing is also a perverse incentive for the
> consumer - who has no financial motivation to not waste bandwidth.  What
> constitutes "waste" is highly subjective, and *should* be decided by the
> consumer ("sure it's expensive to keep ESPN on 24/7 - but it's worth
> every penny to me!").  But unmetered service cedes those decisions to
> the ISP.
>
> Most consumers pick unmetered pricing because it is easier to
> understand.  ("What's a gigabyte?")  The best proposal I've seen to
> simplify metered pricing for such consumers simply changes your queuing
> priority from "high" to "space available" when the paid for limit is
> reached.  (More technical users can use QoS to flag their big downloads
> as "space available" and conserve their high priority bandwidth.)
>
> Finally, the constitutional thing that the federal government can do is
> define the "unlimited internet" marketing term to mean, in essence, "net
> neutrality".  Then ISPs wanting to do throttling/charge content
> providers/etc with unmetered service would have to call it something
> else.  "Turbo internet" / "movie watcher plan" / etc
>
>
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