[ NNSquad ] Re: As predicted: The BitTorrent vs. "traffic shaping" arms race

[Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>]

Kee Hinckley wrote:

> Based on those assumptions, I see three main issues to address.

> c) When services *can* get priority.
> You may want to download that movie to your TiVo right now, but if your 
> neighbors are using VoIP, you're just going to have to wait.  Only the 
> ISP can see the overall picture.

I am not sure about this part. Obviously my high-priority traffic should 
have priority over my low-priority traffic, but why should my neighbor's 
traffic (of any type) have priority over mine? I would suggest that 
during times of congestion each customer should get a fair share of 
bandwidth and then you should do prioritization within each of those 
shares. This gives customers no incentive to cheat by marking all their 
traffic as high-priority, nor does it penalize customers who send no 
high-priority traffic. (As you may tell, I tend to think of this from an 
implementation perspective.)

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org