I'm with you, Barry. Go to
http://itif.org/media/itif-forum-network-management#audio and skip to
1:27:40 and you'll hear me defend the system you propose from criticism
by Michael Calabrese of the New America Foundation, a leading net
neutrality proponent. This was a talk I gave in Washington back in early
2008.
QoS buckets is the only sensible approach that anyone's put forward for
resolving the QoS issue for typical residential users and opening video
and VoIP channels to third party suppliers.
RB
On 8/27/2010 1:34 PM, Barry Gold wrote:
QoS should be specified by the user (presuably through the app as
intermediary). Now, I know that people will try to "game" the system
when you do that. If BT doesn't somebody else will -- take their
video download or whatever other high-bandwidth application and mark
it "high-priority, packets must get through". But the solution to
that is simple: allocate a certain number of MB or GB that you can
send/receive at a given priority. If you exceed that, the remaining
packets get downgraded to a lower priority.
And of course users can pay more for more total bandwidth and/or more
high-priority bandwidth.
--
Richard Bennett
Senior Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC
