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Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: ISP's resetting RealPlayer?
Your interrupted streams
For those who are a little more technically minded, I recommend reading
published papers in the June 2007 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine,
Issue 45.6. It is not particularly amusing, but shows a snapshot of some of
the research currently done and possible opportunities in the area of P2P.
A few responses to some of the remarks on my article posted on NNSquad,
for the mutual benefit and what-not.
Kevin McArthur wrote:
It is not the purpose of a network to determine the value of bits, nor
is it right to treat any bit as better than another. A text message
might be really
I'll respond to the comments on my reply.
I agree, Kevin, that as a matter of principle it's not the network's
job to determine the value of bits, but I disagree that all bits are
therefore of equal value. We all know that some information is more
valuable to us personally than other
This may be a bit philosophical for this list but I think we have to get to
the essential assumption that a carrier can determine the meaning of the
traffic and then act on it whether for our benefit or otherwise.
To make this very simple and clear
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How much is that bit worth and is
Richard, another Trotskyite argument eh?
All government services, whether libraries, roads, or the internet must
take social concerns into account before pure market capitalism. What
you're proposing a system where not only can you buy a nicer car, but
you get to drive faster than everyone
Yeah, yeah, I know, The ability to encrypt data is insignificant
next to the power of ISP Force ...
Well Darth, uh, I mean Nick, it's not a matter a faith, it's
a matter of cause and effect and war without end.
Sure, ISPs and their cohorts could choose to deploy ever more
invasive
I think you're missing a key understanding of QoS. That is, for the traffic
that is tagged as high priority you only get a limited bandwidth. Say
128Kbps. That would allow you to make a VoIP call, for instance. Then you
have your normal traffic, which again is capped at some rate, say 1Mbps.
