Ted Lemon wrote on 2019-04-03 15:34:
Paul, it might be worth asking whether you believe that isps should be
selling eyeballs. If you think they should, then your argument makes
sense. It’s the same argument isps give for charging me for service and
then charging Netflix for access to me.
If you don’t agree with this model, then your argument that whoever
built the network has the right to dictate terms is inconsistent.
my answer is that's a false dichotomy; "none of the above".
the internet relies on cooperation for its functionality.
interoperability in protocols is an example -- if you speak gibberish
you won't be heard, if you don't know the language you won't understand.
respecting the uniqueness of code point allocations is another example:
you are counting on everybody respecting the allocations of network
numbers, autsys numbers, top level domains, protocol identifiers -- and
if they don't, they and you will both suffer.
the example your nondichotomous question brings up is policy. if the
user or app or LAN or WAN or far-end does not want a transaction to
occur, they can block it. if you don't like that policy (see bob's
excellent response down thread), you need to swap out that component of
the path.
so, it's none of my business whether any ISP other than my own sells
eyeballs. for me, i won't do business with an ISP who does that. but, i
have choices. that's why i mentioned "if your ISP has a monopoly"
up-thread, because their regulator may have views on what they can and
cannot do if their customers have no other ISP serving them. (network
neutrality turns on that point, as well.)
i literally do not, and should not, have a belief one way or another as
to whether some figurative ISP sells eyeballs or doesn't. if yours does,
and you don't feel fairly compensated for the resulting loss of your
privacy, than vote with your feet/dollars.
i am not going to prescribe policy, other than indirectly, by refusing
to accept traffic from networks whose policies freely permit abusive
traffic (spam, ddos, etc) to flow toward me. but even in that case, my
belief will be that _i_ should not accept their traffic. i will not try
to tell _you_ whether to accept their traffic.
their network, their rules. i have feet, and they vote.
--
P Vixie
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