[ NNSquad ] Re: Additional or differentiated services

[Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>]

 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. 

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Richard Bennett
Senior Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC