I have just returned from a week in New York and Boston - and the talk everywhere is about 'net neutrality' and how those who are advocating the importance of preserving this are just downright bone-headed.   The latest clever PR offering from the telco-lobby is an engaging short cartoon.

Apart from the fundamentally flawed argument that all our bits will move faster and smoother on an internet that  differentiates  (and charges differentially!) for different 'content-bits' , depending on what they are, or who created them, the cartoon actually features a chap driving on a motorway!   How dumb can you get because every motorway I have ever seen works well for the very rason that it makes no differentiation between cars, buses and trucks or what they are each carrying.  Indeed, one of the most congested bits of motorway that I know that does NOT work well is the stretch of the M4 in London from Heathrow Aiport towards Central London where there is a special lane for buses, taxis and motorcycles.   That lane is virtually empty while the remaining lanes are congested and near stationery !  Motorways work for the very reason that they do NOT differentiate between different forms of traffic.  Anyway, watch the cartoon and get ready - the honeyed words of those who would see the resurrection of "intelligent networks" (that will cost us!) as the answer to the world's communication problems - are soon coming to be heard at a place  near you!

What the internet world needs is simply bigger, open pipes - not partitioned closed pipes.