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Transparency Instead of Neutrality

Pappas, Christos
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Argyraki, Katerina  
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Bechtold, Stefan
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2015
Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)

The technical community has so far defined network neutrality in terms of specific mechanisms, e.g., policing or shaping. We argue that these definitions are problematic: according to them, a non-neutral network may be preferable (for all users) to a neutral one; moreover, these mechanisms can have the same effect on the target traffic as legitimate ISP practices like traffic engineering or peering agreements. We argue that we should not try to define or enforce network neutrality through technical means at all. Instead, the network layer should provide transparency, i.e., low-level loss and delay information that is admissible in court and can be used as a building block by regulators to reason about ISP neutrality at a higher level. We close by outlining challenges and possible solutions.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2834050.2834082
Author(s)
Pappas, Christos
Argyraki, Katerina  
Bechtold, Stefan
Perrig, Adrian
Date Issued

2015

Published in
Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
Subjects

Network neutrality

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Network transparency

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Service-level agreements

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http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2015/
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REVIEWED

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ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

November 16-17

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December 21, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/121869
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