At 3/29/2011 01:20 PM, RickG wrote:
I still say there needs to be more than just caps. There needs to be
a matrix of billing by priority such as video at .03/meg, file
transfer at .02, email at .01, etc. Heck, perhaps HD can be .05 and
SD at .03? (Prices are just for arguments sake)
Well, no, there doesn't. Applications are none of the network's
business. That's one reason why DPI is evil.
HOWEVER, I am not opposed to appliation-agnostic billing for usage,
by QoS. It is perfectly reasonable for a network to charge for usage
that imposes a cost. And while the teevee fiends are sure, just
certain, that 300 GB/month imposes precisely zero cost on the
network, I doubt many WISPs would agree. Especially rural ones who
have to pay for backhaul, or who have multi-hop networks.
IP, of course, is one-size-fits-all, with QoS being rare. Hence caps
and overage charges are a way to do cost averaging for the majority
(since people hate billing for usage), while still hitting the
heaviest users. Block pricing (like wireless, having say 10, 50, and
150 GB/month plans, plus overage) also works. And if you go beyond
plain old IP and do have a QoS-enabled protocol, then lower-loss or
delay-limited (or whatever) traffic should carry a
premium. Regardless of what it's used for. Then the applications
could adapt to the pricing. This leads towards economic optimization.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Bret Clark
<<mailto:bcl...@spectraaccess.com>bcl...@spectraaccess.com> wrote:
I know this is Canada, but I can just see some congressman here in the
US one day bitch about not being able to cleaning watch the "Jackass 3"
movie from Netflix and demanding that all service providers get rid of
bandwidth quotas and throttling by introducing a new bill.
On 03/29/2011 11:26 AM, Matt wrote:
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<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/data-caps-claim-a-victim-netflix-streaming-video.ars>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/data-caps-claim-a-victim-netflix-streaming-video.ars
>
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