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RE: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:15:30 -0700
The problem I have with the concept is that paid prioritization only really has an impact once there is congestion. If your buffers are empty, then there is no real benefit to priority because everything is still being sent as it comes in. If you have paid prioritization, there is a financial incentive to have congestion in order to collect "toll" on the expressway. So if I have a network that is not congested, nobody is going to pay me to ride on a special lane. If I neglect upgrading the network and it becomes congested, I can make money by selling access to an express lane. I believe a network should be able to sell priotitization at the edge, but not in the core. I have no problem with Y!, for example, paying a network to be prioritized ahead of bit torrent on the segment to the end user but I do have a problem with networks selling prioritized access through the core as that only gives an incentive to congest the network to create revenue. G
-----Original Message----- From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank () efes iucc ac il] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:22 AM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/paid-prioritized-traffic -Hank
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- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?, (continued)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Sean Donelan (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Michael Dillon (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Fred Baker (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Bruce Williams (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Barry Shein (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Steven Bellovin (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Bill Stewart (Sep 17)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Bill Stewart (Sep 17)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Steven Bellovin (Sep 19)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Sean Donelan (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? William Allen Simpson (Sep 14)
- RE: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? gordon b slater (Sep 15)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Chris Boyd (Sep 16)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Joe Greco (Sep 16)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, William Herrin (Sep 16)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Tony Varriale (Sep 18)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Joe Greco (Sep 18)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Tony Varriale (Sep 18)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Michael Painter (Sep 18)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Joe Greco (Sep 20)