[ NNSquad ] Re: Comcast announces tests of "protocol agnostic networkmanagement"

["Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>]

> Umm ... whence comes the idea that Comcast should decide among a
> *particular* end-user's traffic what traffic to degrade when 
> it decides that a particular user is overloading the network?
>
> That's the role of "DPI" proposed in this thread.

There is no role for DPI in the trials that Comcast is conducting, FWIW.
 
> Those folks may not include people like small ISPs - small 
> ISPs can't afford DPI equipment, and can't do NebuAd-style 
> ad-insertion, or for that matter, support billing services 
> that monetize VoIP as a special value add service, blocking 
> it otherwise.  Small ISPs (like some here) would prefer that 
> their customers prioritize their own traffic in response to 
> resource reductions, using standard endpoint-based congestion 
> control, I would think.

Customer-prioritization of traffic was one of the interesting
discussions at the IETF P2Pi workshop.

Regards
Jason