Huggers v Vaizey

The BBC's Erik Huggers v the Coalition's Ed Vaizey on net neutrality is hardly going to have the same cachet as Mark Thompson v Rupert Murdoch on buying out Sky, but will be more fun than David Haye v Audley Harrison, at least in the ring.  Erik has posted his views based on a speech to the FT World Telecoms Conference yesterday, and he's warned ISPs that he's on their case if they're not nice to his beloved iPlayer. 

To this end, our R&D team are developing a prototype meter to show consumers in real-time how efficiently BBC iPlayer is being delivered by their ISP - with a simple red, amber, green indicator. In addition, we propose to work with the industry to discuss the possibility of a "kitemark" to denote levels of different broadband package capability in simple, easy-to-understand language.

My problem - both the meter and the kitemark sort of assume net neutrality has gone, and variable charging, to either provider or consumer, is in place.