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You ignored it the first time, figured you needed a refresher.

• AnthonyMouse 10y ago
  The thing that amazes me is that the only part you have the potential to be right about is the part you think is the absurdity. I haven't intended to take a position on what the FCC rule actually does because it's 200 pages of legalese, which is enough to make "objectively wrong" an impossibility. There is enough there for some pedantic jackass to argue anything about anything and the only way to sort it out is another court opinion about specifically that thing. What I don't appreciate is you putting words in my mouth. What I've argued is that not peering is throttling, which it is, but not what the legal implications of that would be, which are open to interpretation. However, the argument you've made that if not peering is throttling then Comcast would have to do free peering is not at all ridiculous. It's just not a sure thing. The ISP would be able to argue that they will do peering just not for free, and then it flips into paid prioritization since prioritization is the opposite of throttling. That's more moving parts than I would prefer to see. Too many opportunities for the ISP to try to weasel out of it. It would be a lot simpler if the FCC would just say "last mile ISPs are required to do free peering with anyone" and avoid the whole mess. But it's a fair argument that could succeed, and if it did would fit entirely with the spirit of the rule. Which you seem to think makes that outcome some kind of an impossibility, but with reasoning no more substantial than "you're wrong" over and over again with no coherent justification.