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mezoth
Aug 7, 2006

Kalman posted:

Okay, so we're using the same terms the same way.

What I am telling you is that the FCC stated that the Netflix deal is at least suspect if not per se barred under their antidiscrimination rule.

So based on this interpretation of the ruling, an "edge provider" could never actually sell direct access to their network to anybody that actually sent content to the other customers on that network? Because that is what you are saying, and edge providers include anybody that actually sells internet access to non-ISPs (which is every player that I know of in the business).

Contextually in the OIO, it talks about pay for priority - which has a very specific meaning in a network world that does NOT include direct access. It means using quality of service or other mechanisms to either prioritize preferred traffic or degrade "bad" traffic in comparison to the other traffic that is running on the same links on the network. If you build a wholly separate link to a new customer, but treat that traffic the same once it is on the network, you do not run afoul of the OIO per the current common consensus of the ISP community.

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