[asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

[Bill Michaelson]

From: Doug <Doug at NaTel.net>

>"Net Neutrality" is great in principle.  But ISP's need to
>somehow control those few percentage of users who suck down
>a huge majority of the bandwidth.  It's dollars and cents.

There is a rational solution for the traffic management issue.  It just needs to be aligned with the pricing model.

I would like to see a tiered offering.  If packet carriers would respect, say, DSCP tags, and ISPs would cap traffic (by bandwidth and/or aggregate transfer per period) in different ways based on priority tags, we could have a palatable solution for all.  Let the bulk users camp out at the fixed price all-you-can-eat packet buffet all they want - at the bulk priority.  If the chafing dishes are occasionally empty, well, too bad.  Let them select one of the higher priorities for the metered or limited traffic.

Then the ISPs could advertise unlimited offerings on a best effort basis, and caveat emptor.  Applications that require more reliability (predictability) will not suffer.



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